Srinivasa Rao D wrote:
> Hi all,
> * How better, i can read ms-word doc files from PHP on LINUX OS*.On
> searching I got *catdoc* softaware.By using this i can read word doc data as
> a text.
>
> function catdoc_file($fname)
> {
>
> $ret = exec('catdoc -ab '.escapeshellarg($fname) .' 2>&1');
>
> if (preg_match('/^sh: line 1: catdoc/i',$ret)) {
> return false;
> }
>
> return trim($ret);
> }
> It is working well.
>
> *Is there are any other softwares that can fetch text from MS-WORD file?.*
>
I wrote this routine a few months ago.
$filename = './lflf.doc';
if ( file_exists($filename) ) {
if ( ($fh = fopen($filename, 'r')) !== false ) {
$headers = fread($fh, 0xA00);
# 1 = (ord(n)*1) ; Document has from 0 to 255 characters
$n1 = ( ord($headers[0x21C]) - 1 );
# 1 = ((ord(n)-8)*256) ; Document has from 256 to 63743
characters
$n2 = ( ( ord($headers[0x21D]) - 8 ) * 256 );
# 1 = ((ord(n)*256)*256) ; Document has from 63744 to 16775423
characters
$n3 = ( ( ord($headers[0x21E]) * 256 ) * 256 );
# 1 = (((ord(n)*256)*256)*256) ; Document has from 16775424 to
4294965504 characters
$n4 = ( ( ( ord($headers[0x21F]) * 256 ) * 256 ) * 256 );
# Total length of text in the document
$textLength = ($n1 + $n2 + $n3 + $n4);
$extracted_plaintext = fread($fh, $textLength);
# if you want the plain text with no formatting, do this
echo $extracted_plaintext;
# if you want to see your paragraphs in a web page, do this
echo nl2br($extracted_plaintext);
fclose($fh);
}
}
This will grab the plain text out of a word document. Version 97' - 2003'
It doesn't work for the newest OpenXML document format.
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