How to examine a WOrd document for changes and comments?

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How to examine a WOrd document for changes and comments?

Rakesh Patel 0

Hi,

I need some way to pull out the tracked changes in a Word document along with the comments made. How can I do this using DI?

The existing models like Layout only return the main text structures.

Would I have to examine the underlying xml structure of a Word document?

Thanks

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Azar 29,520 MVP Volunteer Moderator

Hi there Rakesh Patel

Thanks for using QandA platform

Guess, you would need to analyze the XML structure of the Word document. Word documents in .docx format are ZIP archives containing XML files. unzipg the .docx file, you can access the document.xml and comments.xml . Tracked changes are represented by <w:ins> (inserted text) and <w:del> (deleted text) tags in document.xml, You can use libraries such as python-docx or the OpenXML SDK to programmatically parse and extract the changes and comments from these XML files. , you can integrate XML parsing with Azure AI pipelines for automated extraction and analysis.

If this helps kindly accept the answer thanks much.

Rakesh Patel 0 Reputation points

2024-11-26T14:38:22.95+00:00

I am suprised I cannot do this with Document Intelligence. Is that true?
romungi-MSFT 48,916 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2024-11-28T08:24:14.84+00:00

@Rakesh Patel This is not supported by Azure Document intelligence. It can only extract text from the actual document, the comments and tracked changes are not extracted.
Azar 29,520 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator

2024-11-29T13:17:00.5466667+00:00

Hi there, checking if this answer helped, if it did kindly accept the answer thanks much.

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