DocX English Remover

A Django web app that removes English paragraphs from .docx files.

Local Setup

1. Create a virtual environment or conda env

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate        # Mac/Linux
venv\Scripts\activate           # Windows

conda create -n docx_cleaner python=3.11
conda activate docx_cleaner

2. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run the development server

python manage.py collectstatic --no-input
python manage.py runserver

4. Open in browser

Go to: http://127.0.0.1:8000

How it works

• Upload a .docx file
• The app reads each paragraph and detects its language using langdetect
• English paragraphs are removed
• Short paragraphs under ~20 characters are kept (too short to detect reliably)
• Download the cleaned file

Render

The app is served on Render web service.

If you need to reproduce the creation, you need in .env:

SECRET_KEY=replace-this-with-a-random-secret-key
DEBUG=False
ALLOWED_HOSTS=.onrender.com,localhost,127.0.0.1
CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS=https://*.onrender.com

You can create the key by:

python -c "from django.core.management.utils import get_random_secret_key; print(get_random_secret_key())"

• The build command:./build.sh
• Start command=: gunicorn docx_cleaner.wsgi:application