Re: Reading a Word document from PHP

On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 16:47 -0400, Bastien Koert wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Ashley Sheridan > <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > Hi All, > > I recently asked a question regarding reading a PDF with PHP. > I've tried > Zend_pdf, but all this is able to give me is the number of > pages in a > PDF, and cannot extract the text from the PDF files I have. I > thought > I'd try a different method, and try to extract the text > straight from > the Word document which is used to generate the PDF. Does > anyone have > any experience with this sort of thing, or enough to suggest a > library > which is capable of this? > > > Ash > www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > This may help > > > http://drewd.com/2007/01/25/reading-from-a-word-document-with-com-in-php > > http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/388.html > > > http://www.developertutorials.com/blog/php/extracting-text-from-word-documents-via-php-and-com-81/ > > > -- > > Bastien > > Cat, the other other white meat > Unfortunately all of those use COM, which is only available on Windows... I'm guessing this isn't possible on a proper OS? Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk