How to split a single Word DOCX into Separate Documents by Page in Python

Prepare yourself for the mountain of tedium that is splitting DOCX files into single pages in Python. Just kidding, I’ve got a shortcut for you.

To speed things along today, we need to use an API. Set up its client via pip install:

pip install cloudmersive-convert-api-client

Next up is our function call for split_document_docx, making use of an API instance, like so:

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_convert_api_client
from cloudmersive_convert_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint
# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'
# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.SplitDocumentApi(cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
input_file = '/path/to/file' # file | Input file to perform the operation on.
return_document_contents = true # bool | Set to true to return the contents of each Worksheet directly, set to false to only return URLs to each resulting document.  Default is true. (optional)
try:
# Split a single Word Document DOCX into Separate Documents by Page
api_response = api_instance.split_document_docx(input_file, return_document_contents=return_document_contents)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling SplitDocumentApi->split_document_docx: %s\n" % e)

The only thing left is to submit our request to the server, after which we will receive our response containing all of our pages as individual DOCX files. Cake!