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6th May 13:20
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Reading a Word do***ent from PHP
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 do***ent 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 http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk |
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6th May 13:20
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Reading a Word do***ent from PHP
This may help
http://drewd.com/2007/01/25/reading-from-a-word-do***ent-with-com-in-php http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/388.html http://www.developertutorials.com/blog/php/extracting-text-from-word-do***ents-via-php-and-com-81/ -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat |
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6th May 13:20
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Unfortunately all of those use COM, which is only available on
Windows... I'm guessing this isn't possible on a proper OS? Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk |
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6th May 13:21
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Reading a Word do***ent from PHP
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 do***ent and do what you need to -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat |
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6th May 13:21
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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. ****s 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 |
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6th May 13:21
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Reading a Word do***ent from PHP
Ah that's too bad. Sorry about the bad tip!
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6th May 13:21
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Hi I know the new microsoft docx format is an xml do***ent, so you could
probably use the xml parser with that. Any chance you can get them to use a rtf file instead of a word file to convert to pdf, rtf is mostly readable text with some control words thrown in for formatting. clive |
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6th May 13:21
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No worries about the tip, it was a good tip.
Unfortunately I'm stuck trying to extract text from a Word do***ent or a PDF file because she doesn't know how to make a CSV in Excel, despite me showing her how to do it. She kept trying to upload a PDF to the site and wondered why it wasn't able to pick out the text from that! Obviously an attempt was made to shift the blame to me for not building the site right! Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk |
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6th May 13:22
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Reading a Word do***ent from PHP
If it were me... and I REALLY needed to do this... I'd probably start
look into how to make Open Office do a command line conversion of word do***ents to plain text. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP |
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6th May 13:22
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Robert ***mings a écrit :
If you're on Debian, seek for the openoffice.org-headless package  -- Mickaël Wolff aka Lupus Michaelis http://lupusmic.org |
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