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Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is a word processor developed by Microsoft.

This covers how to load Word documents into a document format that we can use downstream.

Using Docx2txt​

Load .docx using Docx2txt into a document.

!pip install docx2txt
from langchain_community.document_loaders import Docx2txtLoader
loader = Docx2txtLoader("example_data/fake.docx")
data = loader.load()
data
[Document(page_content='Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.', metadata={'source': 'example_data/fake.docx'})]

Using Unstructured​

from langchain_community.document_loaders import UnstructuredWordDocumentLoader
loader = UnstructuredWordDocumentLoader("example_data/fake.docx")
data = loader.load()
data
[Document(page_content='Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'fake.docx'}, lookup_index=0)]

Retain Elements​

Under the hood, Unstructured creates different “elements” for different chunks of text. By default we combine those together, but you can easily keep that separation by specifying mode="elements".

loader = UnstructuredWordDocumentLoader("example_data/fake.docx", mode="elements")
data = loader.load()
data[0]
Document(page_content='Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.', lookup_str='', metadata={'source': 'fake.docx', 'filename': 'fake.docx', 'category': 'Title'}, lookup_index=0)