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+import sys
+from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
+
+document = ET.parse(sys.argv[1])
+ns = 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'
+for page, i in enumerate(document.findall('.//{{{0}}}page'.format(ns))):
+    for word in page.getchildren():
+        octalescapedtext = ''.join(["\{0:o}".format(c) if c>127 else chr(c) for c in map(ord,word.text.encode('utf8'))])
+        #escape quote character
+        print octalescapedtext