Re: How to fetch .DOC or .DOCX file in php

From: Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:10:59 +0000
Subject: Re: How to fetch .DOC or .DOCX file in php
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On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Jim Lucas <lists@cmsws.com> wrote: > I was going to say that I haven't yet decided on what the final output format is going to > be. Probably either rtf or OpenXML. > > How about I ask for suggestions on what would be the best format to store the final copy. > > I figured that this tool would mainly be used for .doc to web conversion, but I guess it could > be used to also convert to other document formats too. > > But, I would like to have the ability to at least store the formating inline with the text. > So, either some form of xml. Be it (x)HTML or plain XML > or even OpenXML. > > A question to all then. How would you like to see the text, with formating, stored? > > All suggestions welcome! > > -- > Jim Lucas > It's an excellent start. It pulled in some additional control characters in some of the documents I tried, and some documents had extra stuff at the end of the document. It was still text, but it looked like the text from the page header/footer definitions. It would be cool to see this polished and released. I just wish there was something this basic that worked this well on PDF files! :-) Andrew

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