Open Word docx file with "The image part with relationship rID8 was not found" error, it always fails

[paradise321]

When I try to open a docx file with "The image part with relationship rID8 was not found" error, the following error is reported always.

The code is as simple as following:

from docx import Document

doc = Document('.\WordHasSomeProblem.docx')

WordHasSomeProblem.docx

The problematic word file is attached, i.e., WordHasSomeProblem.docx

As Microsoft has declared here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/word/image-part-relationship-rld8-not-found-error-microsoft-word, the problem happens here is because of some target field was set to "NULL.".

My question is: is that possible to add some parameter in Document() to just ignore this kind of errors and continue loading the docx into RAM?

Thanks!

[paradise321]

error traces like below:

%Run read_word.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Temp\Source\Python\Word1\read_word.py", line 3, in
doc = Document('.\WordHasSomeProblem.docx')
File "C:\Users\userid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\docx\api.py", line 25, in Document
document_part = Package.open(docx).main_document_part
File "C:\Users\userid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\docx\opc\package.py", line 128, in open
pkg_reader = PackageReader.from_file(pkg_file)
File "C:\Users\userid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\docx\opc\pkgreader.py", line 35, in from_file
sparts = PackageReader._load_serialized_parts(
File "C:\Users\userid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\docx\opc\pkgreader.py", line 69, in _load_serialized_parts
for partname, blob, reltype, srels in part_walker:
File "C:\Users\userid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\docx\opc\pkgreader.py", line 110, in _walk_phys_parts
for partname, blob, reltype, srels in next_walker:
File "C:\Users\userid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\docx\opc\pkgreader.py", line 105, in _walk_phys_parts
blob = phys_reader.blob_for(partname)
File "C:\Users\userid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\docx\opc\phys_pkg.py", line 108, in blob_for
return self._zipf.read(pack_uri.membername)
File "C:\Users\userid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\zipfile.py", line 1464, in read
with self.open(name, "r", pwd) as fp:
File "C:\Users\userid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\zipfile.py", line 1503, in open
zinfo = self.getinfo(name)
File "C:\Users\userid\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\zipfile.py", line 1430, in getinfo
raise KeyError(
KeyError: "There is no item named 'word/NULL' in the archive"

[wonzer]

@paradise321 You can override load_from_xml of python-docx to skip the element which target_ref is null. Put this code before "doc = Document('.\WordHasSomeProblem.docx')".

from docx.opc.pkgreader import _SerializedRelationships, _SerializedRelationship
from docx.opc.oxml import parse_xml


def load_from_xml_v2(baseURI, rels_item_xml):
    """
    Return |_SerializedRelationships| instance loaded with the
    relationships contained in *rels_item_xml*. Returns an empty
    collection if *rels_item_xml* is |None|.
    """
    srels = _SerializedRelationships()
    if rels_item_xml is not None:
        rels_elm = parse_xml(rels_item_xml)
        for rel_elm in rels_elm.Relationship_lst:
            if rel_elm.target_ref in ('../NULL', 'NULL'):
                continue
            srels._srels.append(_SerializedRelationship(baseURI, rel_elm))
    return srels


_SerializedRelationships.load_from_xml = load_from_xml_v2

[azurewtl]

@paradise321 You can override load_from_xml of python-docx to skip the element which target_ref is null. Put this code before "doc = Document('.\WordHasSomeProblem.docx')".

from docx.opc.pkgreader import _SerializedRelationships, _SerializedRelationship
from docx.opc.oxml import parse_xml


def load_from_xml_v2(baseURI, rels_item_xml):
    """
    Return |_SerializedRelationships| instance loaded with the
    relationships contained in *rels_item_xml*. Returns an empty
    collection if *rels_item_xml* is |None|.
    """
    srels = _SerializedRelationships()
    if rels_item_xml is not None:
        rels_elm = parse_xml(rels_item_xml)
        for rel_elm in rels_elm.Relationship_lst:
            if rel_elm.target_ref in ('../NULL', 'NULL'):
                continue
            srels._srels.append(_SerializedRelationship(baseURI, rel_elm))
    return srels


_SerializedRelationships.load_from_xml = load_from_xml_v2

This is a GENIUS fix!
I save it as docx_patch.py, just import docx_patch after docx importation, it works.

[niuhuluzhihao]

@paradise321 You can override load_from_xml of python-docx to skip the element which target_ref is null. Put this code before "doc = Document('.\WordHasSomeProblem.docx')".

from docx.opc.pkgreader import _SerializedRelationships, _SerializedRelationship
from docx.opc.oxml import parse_xml


def load_from_xml_v2(baseURI, rels_item_xml):
    """
    Return |_SerializedRelationships| instance loaded with the
    relationships contained in *rels_item_xml*. Returns an empty
    collection if *rels_item_xml* is |None|.
    """
    srels = _SerializedRelationships()
    if rels_item_xml is not None:
        rels_elm = parse_xml(rels_item_xml)
        for rel_elm in rels_elm.Relationship_lst:
            if rel_elm.target_ref in ('../NULL', 'NULL'):
                continue
            srels._srels.append(_SerializedRelationship(baseURI, rel_elm))
    return srels


_SerializedRelationships.load_from_xml = load_from_xml_v2

This is a GENIUS fix! I save it as docx_patch.py, just import docx_patch after docx importation, it works.

It did solve my problem

[HongxinLiu17]

@paradise321 You can override load_from_xml of python-docx to skip the element which target_ref is null. Put this code before "doc = Document('.\WordHasSomeProblem.docx')".

from docx.opc.pkgreader import _SerializedRelationships, _SerializedRelationship
from docx.opc.oxml import parse_xml


def load_from_xml_v2(baseURI, rels_item_xml):
    """
    Return |_SerializedRelationships| instance loaded with the
    relationships contained in *rels_item_xml*. Returns an empty
    collection if *rels_item_xml* is |None|.
    """
    srels = _SerializedRelationships()
    if rels_item_xml is not None:
        rels_elm = parse_xml(rels_item_xml)
        for rel_elm in rels_elm.Relationship_lst:
            if rel_elm.target_ref in ('../NULL', 'NULL'):
                continue
            srels._srels.append(_SerializedRelationship(baseURI, rel_elm))
    return srels


_SerializedRelationships.load_from_xml = load_from_xml_v2

Cool!

[Cesar8k]

Hello,

I am having a similar problem, but the error is this:

KeyError: "There is no item named 'word/#pdfImages' in the archive"

Please, could you advise me how to change the suggested solution code to fix my issue?

Thanks!

[Cesar8k]

Hello,

I am having a similar problem, but the error is this:

KeyError: "There is no item named 'word/#pdfImages' in the archive"

Please, could you advise me how to change the suggested solution code to fix my issue?

Thanks!

I modified the line:
if rel_elm.target_ref in ('../NULL', 'NULL', '#pdfImages')

and now it works!