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[help] Are there tools for documents manipulating that can provide an approximate size of components (text included)? (self.programming)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Red1C3 to c/[email protected]

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Long story short, I want to build a system that reorders some components in a document file (be it a docx or odt, I don't have a hard constraint atm).

So my problem input should be a document file, and I need to be able to approximate the number of pages consumed by this document file, I also need to be able to get the height of individual components (like a single paragraph or a table) to have the data I need to rearrange so I can make the document have less pages.

I don't have a hard constraint on the programming language of the tool either (Python preferred), I prefer not embedding LibreOffice into my system.

Also I'm willing to hear other solutions (maybe my input is not the optimal thing I can use for this problem).

Thanks in advance!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

A docx is just a renamed zip archive with the XML data. You should be able to unzip it and use a parser to access that info directly. There are likely tools to do this for any relevant language. You can also find the official spec online with some more info.

Unfortunately, I can't get into much more detail than that as my company actively develops similar tools and I've worked on their document renderers not too long ago.

No clue on the odt stuff. I worked on the MS fidelity part.