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jbrown
jbrown

Reputation: 7996

Create PDF from Word template in Python

I need to generate reports in python. The report needs to contain a header and footer on each page, some text that won't change, some text that's dynamic, and some charts.

I've created a template using Word, and I'm looking for a way of replacing placeholders such as [+my_placeholder+] with text content/charts/whatever.

Is there anything that can let me use Word documents (or something Word can write) as a template to create a PDF in Python? Since I've already created sample reports in Word I want to reuse what I've got instead of having to recreate them using ReportLab or HTML (I know about ReportLab, pyPDF and also xhtml2pdf).

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8429

Answers (1)

Harpe
Harpe

Reputation: 316

about the first part, editing word templates, you can have a look at this question: Reading/Writing MS Word files in Python

There is a package for editing word files, called python-docx.

For converting word files into pdf documents, there should be a variety of different tools, including command line tools. So you could use python to edit your document and then use a converter tool that you call from your python code to create the pdf.

Upvotes: 2

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