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mammoth 1.13.0 on Word (.docx)

130 files: text from 94, empty 19, errors 17, hangs 0, crashes 0. 103 files give text to at least one library.

🔴 Fails where another library reads text: 2

60329.docxKeyError: 'w:type' (0.007 s)
deep-table-cell.docxRecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded (0.623 s)

🟡 Empty where another library reads text: 7

61470.docxno text (0.009 s)
Bug60341.docxno text (0.001 s)
EmptyDocumentWithHeaderFooter.docxno text (0.008 s)
FldSimple.docxno text (0.005 s)
Headers.docxno text (0.012 s)
Tika-792.docxno text (0.007 s)
headerFooter.docxno text (0.005 s)

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Changes between versions

1.12.2 → 1.13.0: 0 newly failing, 0 fixed

1.12.1 → 1.12.2: 0 newly failing, 0 fixed

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Slowest files

bug65649.docx8.808 s, 590 MB
bug59058.docx1.204 s, 87 MB
bib-chernigovka.netdo.ru_download_docs_17459.docx0.669 s, 62 MB
bug57031.docx0.653 s, 65 MB
51921-Word-Crash067.docx0.274 s, 30 MB
issue_51265_2.docx0.255 s, 65 MB
52449.docx0.252 s, 28 MB
52288.docx0.251 s, 28 MB
55733.docx0.242 s, 28 MB
drawing.docx0.134 s, 63 MB

Recipe: board/targets.py. Run: 2026-11-06T16:35:12Z, Python 3.13.18, Linux x86_64, 4 CPUs (log). Installed: cobble==0.1.4, mammoth==1.13.0