"""
Extracting the text of a simple docx file.
"""
import os
import sys
# adding the parent directory to PATH
path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),".."))
sys.path.append(path)
from docx.document import DocxDocument
if __name__ == '__main__':
try:
doc = DocxDocument(sys.argv[1])
newfile = open(sys.argv[2],'w')
except:
print('Please supply an input and output file. For example:')
print(''' extract_text.py 'My Office 2007 extract.docx' 'outputfile.txt' ''')
exit()
## Fetch all the text out of the document we just created
paragraphs = doc.get_text()
# Make explicit unicode version
paragraphs_encoded = []
for p in paragraphs:
paragraphs_encoded.append(p.encode("utf-8"))
## Print our documnts test with two newlines under each paragraph
newfile.write('\n\n'.join(paragraphs_encoded))
