The tool "sharepoint-to-text" is designed for extracting text from various Office files, including legacy formats like .doc, .xls, and .ppt, as well as modern formats such as .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx, without relying on large dependencies like LibreOffice or Java. It operates entirely in Python, parsing Office binary formats and OOXML directly, which eliminates the need for system dependencies and reduces the footprint of the extraction process. The tool also supports OpenDocument formats, PDFs, emails, HTML, and plain text, offering features like table, image, and metadata extraction, with a built-in CLI and JSON serialization. However, it does not support OCR for scanned PDFs, and password-protected files are not processed. This matters because it provides a lightweight and efficient solution for text extraction from a wide range of document formats, particularly useful for processing large SharePoint dumps in enterprise environments.
