Getting PHP to read .doc files on Linux

Question

I am trying to read a .doc file in a database so that I can index its contents. Is there an easy way for PHP on Linux to read .doc files? Otherwise, is it possible to convert .doc files to rtf, pdf or some other “open” format that is easy to read?

Note that I am not interested in .docx files.

Answer 1

There seems to be a library for accessing Word documents , but not sure how to access it with PHP. I think the best solution would be to call them wv command from PHP.

Answer 2

, OpenOffice/ . . - , MS doc.

, PDF, :

/usr/lib/ooo-2.0/program/soffice.bin -norestore -nofirststart -nologo -headless -invisible   "macro:///Standard.Module1.SaveAsPDF(demo.doc)"

Answer 3

phpLiveDocx Zend Framework DOC RTF PHP Linux, Windows Mac. , PDF PHP , MS Word Open Office!

. - :

http://www.phplivedocx.org

Answer 4

antiword AbiWord . AbiWord, , , RTF, PDF (, GUI, ).

Answer 5

unoconv Ubuntu. , OpenOffice. exec php .

Answer 6

Microsoft .DOC.

Answer 7

PHP, doc2rtf, . RTF , , RTF , .

OpenOffice MS Word File > Save As > RTF.

Answer 8

DOC , - PHP- .

RTF , , fopen .

RTF, , DOC.

Answer 9

You can check out the source code of this article: Reading "clean" text from DOCX and ODT

Answer 10

After a few days of searching, here is my best solution: http://wvware.sourceforge.net/

Install package

sudo apt-get install wv

Use it in PHP:

$output = str_replace('.doc', '.txt', $filename);
shell_exec('/usr/bin/wvText ' . $filename . ' ' . $output);
$text = file_get_contents($output);
# Convert to UTF-8 if needed
if(!mb_detect_encoding($text, 'UTF-8', true))
{
    $text = utf8_encode($text);
}
unlink($output);