Django displaying upload file content

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I have an application that loads different documents to the server, and allows users to read documents' content. I am uploading the documents to the server, and then I try to read the courses by id, like:

 def view_course(request,id):
  u = Courses.objects.get(pk=id)

etc

But I don't find anywhere: how can I actually read the content of a /.doc/.pdf/.txt and display it on a web page?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

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Reading plain text files is trivial, while PDF and Word processing is not. For the latter two you'll have to incorporate some external libraries.

Text: f.read()
Word: extracting text from MS word files in python
PDF: http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/index.html

edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

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answered Jun 06 '10 at 11:18

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perfect, i'll study the docs, and publish my result. thank you! – dana Jun 06 '10 at 11:30

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