Hi There,

Is there a possible way to read contents of word file. I have applied techniques through COM class, readfile, file and fread but none of them are working. COM class gives error, and rest of the functions give encrpyted data output.


Regards,
Anum

maybe by using a program like antiword [ http://www.winfield.demon.nl/ ] to extract the text.
Word have a closed format, so don't expect it to be able to extract everything...

Otherwise, maybe you coud try to script openoffice to convert the word document to an odt file.
Those are xml, and should be parsable with less hassle.

Thanks for your reply, converting file in odt format will require openoffice to be configured in any system, and its not common in most of the systems.

You are missing the point totally!

Word files are in a format that PHP CANNOT read easily. .odt files are actually a formatted XML document so can be read with standard PHP classes.

oks,

thanks for response. Got the point.

Cheers.

autumn,

I wanted to mention a possible solution. Google docs API offers the ability to upload both .doc and .docx to their service. The files are very accurately decrypted. Being tech support for RSSBus I am a bit biased in how I would attach to the google services. RSSBus can (using the GoogleOps connector) make connecting to this service and working with the results quite simple.

I do not have an example posted in our template gallery illustrating exactly what you are trying to accomplish, but I do have an example that can give the general idea of how something like this is accomplished here.

If you do decide to use RSSBus to accomplish this task you can easily make a service that runs on your server to take a .doc/docx file, upload to Google Docs, then return the decoded plain text. Allowing your php script to just pass the name/location of a file and wait for the resultig text.

-Shannon

Thanks Shannon,


Thats a very nice solution, I certaintly will try it.



Regards and Cheers

You are quite welcome, glad I could help.

You can read a txt file with phpas follow:

$yourFile = "testFile.txt";
$fh = fopen($yourFile, 'r');
$theData = fread($fh, filesize($yourFile));
fclose($fh);
echo $theData;

Originally Posted by xela1966

You can read a txt file with phpas follow:

$yourFile = "testFile.txt";
$fh = fopen($yourFile, 'r');
$theData = fread($fh, filesize($yourFile));
fclose($fh);
echo $theData;

unfortunately a .doc/.docx file is not text, it's an encoded proprietary format.