Working with Highlighted Text in Python .docx Module

The Python python-docx module allows you to work with Microsoft Word .docx files. Among its many features, it lets you apply and detect highlighting in text.

Here's a guide on how to work with highlighted text using the python-docx module:

1. Installation

If you haven't installed python-docx, you can do so with pip:

pip install python-docx 

2. Applying Highlighting to Text

To apply highlighting to text, you can use the highlight_color attribute of a Run object:

from docx import Document from docx.shared import RGBColor doc = Document() p = doc.add_paragraph() run = p.add_run("This is highlighted text.") run.highlight_color = RGBColor(255, 255, 0) # Yellow highlight doc.save("highlighted_text.docx") 

3. Detecting Highlighted Text

To detect whether a piece of text in a document is highlighted, you can examine the highlight_color attribute of each Run object:

from docx import Document doc = Document("highlighted_text.docx") for paragraph in doc.paragraphs: for run in paragraph.runs: if run.highlight_color: print(f"Highlighted text: {run.text}") 

This script will print all the highlighted text runs present in the document.

Do note that python-docx has its limitations and might not support all Word features, but for basic operations like the ones above, it works pretty effectively.

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