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Friday, December 27, 2002

Using Python to Extract Title from MS Word Doc

Based on some code from this article, here's how to extract the "Title" property from a Word document in python.

  import win32com.client
  app = win32com.client.Dispatch('Word.Application')
  doc = app.Documents.Add(self.filename)
  self.title = doc.BuiltinDocumentProperties("Title")
  doc.Close(0)
  app.Quit()
3:25:43 PM   #  

Hmm.

Hmm. There has got to be a faster way of getting that info. I'm pretty sure that Explorer isn't launching Word every time it wants to display the properties for a document.

3:47:27 PM   #  

Document Titles Part II: A Better Way

There is: FPropSet. This is about two magnitudes of order faster than the previous solution.

    fps = win32com.client.Dispatch('FilePropertySet.FilePropertySet')
    fps.Pathname = file
    print fps.BuiltInFileProperties().Item("Title")
6:30:51 PM   #  

Do Not Operate Heavy Machinery if Brain is not Working

After spending an hour trying to figure out what misunderstanding of COM was causing my problem, I realized that the file I was trying to test against DID NOT EXIST (typo). I was calling everything correctly, but the information I was sending was wrong... note that setting fps.Pathname to a non-existent file will cause an exception.

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