Re: reading microsoft word, excel, pdf document text

Hey Erick, unfortunately I know little about this myself, but I'm sure, this article will help you as a starting point. http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/alain20001003.php3 Good luck -ren ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erick Papadakis" <erick_papadakis@yahoo.com> To: <huntsman@www.nisu.flinders.edu.au>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] 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/ > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >