On Wednesday 18 Jul 2007 01:07:49 csnyder wrote: > On 7/17/07, Jon Baer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think he was asking about a .doc file directly? Im suprised that > > manipulation of Word docs always comes up on the list + the resources are > > pretty limited. > > > > One project I found a while ago was antiword in which the sources are > > available: > > > > > > http://www.winfield.demon.nl/ > > There was a reference earlier to catdoc. The url for that project is > http://www.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/ > > The changelog shows slightly more recent activity than AntiWord, but I > suppose it all breaks with Office 2007 (or whatever year they're up to > in Redmond).
This is very nice command line utility to extract text from Word and Powerpoint slides. It runs on most of *nix systems. Can be used to extract text (in form of CSV) from XLS files also. We have been using it very happily for long time. Thanks Anirudh Zala _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
