Extract bold and italic text from Word docs

To extract bold and italic text from Word documents (.docx files), you can use Python with the python-docx library. Here’s a sample script that identifies and extracts text that is bold, italic, or both.

Python Script to Extract Bold and Italic Text

python
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from docx import Document

def extract_bold_italic_text(file_path):
    doc = Document(file_path)
    bold_text = []
    italic_text = []
    bold_italic_text = []

    for para in doc.paragraphs:
        for run in para.runs:
            text = run.text.strip()
            if not text:
                continue
            if run.bold and run.italic:
                bold_italic_text.append(text)
            elif run.bold:
                bold_text.append(text)
            elif run.italic:
                italic_text.append(text)

    return bold_text, italic_text, bold_italic_text

# Example usage:
file_path = 'example.docx'  # Replace with your .docx file path
bold, italic, both = extract_bold_italic_text(file_path)

print("Bold Text:", bold)
print("Italic Text:", italic)
print("Bold & Italic Text:", both)

Requirements

Install the required library:

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pip install python-docx

Output

• bold will contain only bold text

• italic will contain only italic text

• both will contain text that is both bold and italic

Let me know if you’d like this script adapted to extract from tables, headers, or footnotes as well.