wdFormatUnicodeText = 7
for infile in glob.glob(os.path.join('mypath', '*.docx')):
    print(infile)
doc = word.Documents.Open(infile)
txtpath = os.path.splitext('infile')[0] + '.txt'
doc.SaveAs(txtpath, wdFormatUnicodeText)
doc.Close()
with open(txtpath, encoding='utf-16') as f:
    process_the_file(f)
Pulling data out of MS Word with pywin32