Extract headers from Word documents

To extract headers from Word documents (.docx format), you can use the Python library python-docx. Here’s a script that extracts all paragraph texts styled as headers (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.):

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from docx import Document

def extract_headers(docx_path):
    document = Document(docx_path)
    headers = []

    for para in document.paragraphs:
        if para.style.name.startswith('Heading'):
            headers.append((para.style.name, para.text))

    return headers

# Example usage
headers = extract_headers("your_document.docx")
for style, text in headers:
    print(f"{style}: {text}")

Explanation:

• para.style.name checks the style of each paragraph.

• Common Word heading styles are “Heading 1”, “Heading 2”, etc.

• This function returns a list of tuples: (heading level, heading text).

Let me know if you want to extract headers from multiple documents or format them differently.