Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens

Re:Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 t... by rubyfan on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @03:20PM (#48822404)

I haven’t looked under the hood here but to make simple text replacement via command line is an LLM even required? A human driven command line tool to do basic substitution on batches of files reliably would be amazing.

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Re:Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 t... by BorisMelnik on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @03:27PM (#48822501)

there is a python library for docx handling. my thinking was the use case for this was for larger scale automations / document processing.

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Re:Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 t... by asdff on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @04:44PM (#48823480)

sed, awk. docx is just zipped xml.

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Re:Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 t... by phil-martin on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @09:39PM (#48826430)

It is just zipped xml, but to do a search and replace while retaining document structure is very very complicated, and I’m struggling to think of how to combine sed and awk to achieve it.

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Re:Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 t... by cyanydeez on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @05:00PM (#48823672)

you've never dealt with ooxml.

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Re:Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 t... by rubyfan on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @06:46PM (#48825045)

Sadly I have spent lots of time with ooxml and pdf and my experience suggests there really aren’t reliable means for dealing with seemingly simple changes.

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Re:Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 t... by kirillklimuk on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @05:20PM (#48823961)

Not really - if you wanna do a text replacement you can extract it yourself and do some work (or just use this CLI). The library is designed for longer workloads.

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