RE: [PHP] Reading a Word document from PHP

> -----Original Message----- > From: Bastien Koert [mailto:phpster@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 4:00 PM > To: ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk > Cc: php-general > Subject: Re: [PHP] Reading a Word document from PHP > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Ashley Sheridan > <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk>wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > Sadly, no...the closest you could come to, would be to try and see if > you > can manipulate OpenOffice via exec or something like that to read the > document and do what you need to There's a Python script described in this article: http://www.gsdesign.ro/blog/php-convert-microsoft-word-doc-to-pdf/ ...that sounds like it will do what you want. Sucks that it's using Python, but at least it's a technology that isn't hard to put on a Linux machine. Other than that, I would recommend Mono, perhaps, and use a .NET DLL (or similar construct). HTH, Todd Boyd Web Programmer