This Python script extracts human-readable text from .PWI files (Pocket Word Document files) using UTF-8 decoding. It's designed to cleanly filter out binary noise and retain only meaningful lines containing alphanumeric characters.
- β Skips the 512-byte PWI file header
- β Decodes content using UTF-8 (ignores undecodable characters)
- β Filters out empty or binary-like lines
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Optionally saves the result to a
.txtfile
- Python 3.x
- No external dependencies (uses built-in modules)
- Save the script as
extract_pwi.py. - Place your
.pwifile in the same folder or provide the full path. - Run the script:
python extract_pwi.py