Re: reading microsoft word, excel, pdf document text

hi david, thanks for the note. ok, here is what i want to do. i want my users to upload WORD, XLS, PPT and PDF files. when they upload, i store these files in the temp directory, grab the text from them, and then put it into my database for later searching. i dont care about the formatting, i only care about the text because i need the keywords later for searching. can i run some sort of a parser on the server side like the wvware.com's word parser and just call it through php? i have not been able to figure out how to do this using php. i would really appreciate any ideas and suggestions! thanks/erick __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/