Re: Re: Convert .docx /.pdf file to .txt

On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 09:17 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Jagdeep Singh at 06/12/08 06:46 did gyre and gimble: > > Hi! > > > > I need a function to fetch text from docx file, but it is showing formated > > characters in output. I was using fopen, fgets etc function . > > > > I want to fetch text from .docx and save it to .txt file Without special > > characters (Microsoft formated characters) > > > > Is there any function or an example?? > > Nothing that I know of built in to PHP (although as docx is just XML > AFAIK, you could just write an XSLT to extract the content). > > You could also shell out to an application that would do it for you. > > After about 5 seconds on google I found: > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=235455 > > If it works or not I have no idea! > > Col > > -- > > Colin Guthrie > gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie > http://colin.guthr.ie/ > > Day Job: > Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] > Open Source: > Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] > PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] > Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] > > Also, as far as I believe, docx isn't just an XML document, but rather a zip file of xml docs and other media. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk