Re: [PHP] How to fetch .DOC or .DOCX file in php
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Jim Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Shawn McKenzie wrote:
>> Jim Lucas wrote:
>>> Boyd, Todd M. wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: Jagdeep Singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 8:39 AM
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP] How to fetch .DOC or .DOCX file in php
> Importance: Low
>
> Hi !
>
> I want to fetch text from .doc / .docx file and save it into database
> file.
> But when I tried to fetch text with fopen/fgets etc ... It gave me
> special
> characters with text.
>
> (With .txt files everything is fine)
> Only problem is with doc/docx files.
> I dont know whow to remove "SPECIAL CHARACTERS" from this text ...
A.) This has been handled on this list several times. Please search the
archives before posting a question.
B.) Did you even TRY to Google for this? In the first 5 matches for "php
open ms word" I found this:
http://www.developertutorials.com/blog/php/extracting-text-from-word-doc
uments-via-php-and-com-81/
You will need an MS Windows machine for this solution to work. If you're
using *nix... well... good luck.
// Todd
>>> Ah, not true about the MS requirement. If all you want is the clear/clean
>>> text (without any formatting), then I can do it with php on any platform.
>>>
>>> If this is what is needed, here is the code to do it.
>>>
>>> >>
>>> $filename = './12345.doc';
>>> if ( file_exists($filename) ) {
>>>
>>> if ( ($fh = fopen($filename, 'r')) !== false ) {
>>>
>>> $headers = fread($fh, 0xA00);
>>>
>>> # 1 = (ord(n)*1) ; Document has from 0 to 255 characters
>>> $n1 = ( ord($headers[0x21C]) - 1 );
>>>
>>> # 1 = ((ord(n)-8)*256) ; Document has from 256 to 63743
>>> characters
>>> $n2 = ( ( ord($headers[0x21D]) - 8 ) * 256 );
>>>
>>> # 1 = ((ord(n)*256)*256) ; Document has from 63744 to 16775423
>>> characters
>>> $n3 = ( ( ord($headers[0x21E]) * 256 ) * 256 );
>>>
>>> # (((ord(n)*256)*256)*256) ; Document has from 16775424 to
>>> 4294965504 characters
>>> $n4 = ( ( ( ord($headers[0x21F]) * 256 ) * 256 ) * 256 );
>>>
>>> # Total length of text in the document
>>> $textLength = ($n1 + $n2 + $n3 + $n4);
>>>
>>> $extracted_plaintext = fread($fh, $textLength);
>>>
>>> # if you want the plain text with no formatting, do this
>>> echo $extracted_plaintext;
>>>
>>> # if you want to see your paragraphs in a web page, do this
>>> echo nl2br($extracted_plaintext);
>>>
>>> }
>>>
>>> }
>>>
>>> ?>
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
>>> I am working on a set of php classes that will be able to read the text
>>> with the formatting included and convert it to a standard document format.
>>> The standard format that it will end up in has yet
>>>
>> "has yet"... what?
>>
>> Are you O.K. Jim? Did you die while writing this?
>>
>
> Sorry, still kickin'
>
> I was going to say that I haven't yet decided on what the final output format
> is going to be. Probably either rtf or OpenXML.
>
> How about I ask for suggestions on what would be the best format to store the
> final copy.
>
> I figured that this tool would mainly be used for .doc to web conversion, but
> I guess it could be used to also convert to other document formats too.
>
> But, I would like to have the ability to at least store the formating inline
> with the text. So, either some form of xml. Be it (x)HTML or plain XML
> or even OpenXML.
>
> A question to all then. How would you like to see the text, with formating,
> stored?
>
> All suggestions welcome!
>
> --
> Jim Lucas
>
> "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness,
> and some have greatness thrust upon them."
>
> Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V
>by William Shakespeare
>
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>
>
Is there a way to make it so that additional output renderers could be
created? I'd lean towards xml though, since that can be parsed fairly
easily.
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Re: [PHP] How to fetch .DOC or .DOCX file in php
Andrew Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Jim Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I was going to say that I haven't yet decided on what the final output >> format is going to be. Probably either rtf or OpenXML. >> >> How about I ask for suggestions on what would be the best format to store >> the final copy. >> >> I figured that this tool would mainly be used for .doc to web conversion, >> but I guess it could be used to also convert to other document formats too. >> >> But, I would like to have the ability to at least store the formating inline >> with the text. So, either some form of xml. Be it (x)HTML or plain XML >> or even OpenXML. >> >> A question to all then. How would you like to see the text, with formating, >> stored? >> >> All suggestions welcome! >> >> -- >> Jim Lucas >> > > It's an excellent start. It pulled in some additional control > characters in some of the documents I tried, and some documents had > extra stuff at the end of the document. It was still text, but it > looked like the text from the page header/footer definitions. It would > be cool to see this polished and released. I just wish there was > something this basic that worked this well on PDF files! :-) > > Andrew > Ah, a part that I hadn't yet thought about checking to see if they would have been included. Like I said, this is just the starting spot. I will continue hacking at this thing. Hopefully something good will come of it... :) -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] How to fetch .DOC or .DOCX file in php
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Jim Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was going to say that I haven't yet decided on what the final output format > is going to be. Probably either rtf or OpenXML. > > How about I ask for suggestions on what would be the best format to store the > final copy. > > I figured that this tool would mainly be used for .doc to web conversion, but > I guess it could be used to also convert to other document formats too. > > But, I would like to have the ability to at least store the formating inline > with the text. So, either some form of xml. Be it (x)HTML or plain XML > or even OpenXML. > > A question to all then. How would you like to see the text, with formating, > stored? > > All suggestions welcome! > > -- > Jim Lucas > It's an excellent start. It pulled in some additional control characters in some of the documents I tried, and some documents had extra stuff at the end of the document. It was still text, but it looked like the text from the page header/footer definitions. It would be cool to see this polished and released. I just wish there was something this basic that worked this well on PDF files! :-) Andrew -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] How to fetch .DOC or .DOCX file in php
At 7:35 PM -0800 12/4/08, Jim Lucas wrote: A question to all then. How would you like to see the text, with formating, stored? All suggestions welcome! -- Jim Lucas Jim: What's wrong with ".txt"? Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] How to fetch .DOC or .DOCX file in php
At 6:39 PM -0600 12/4/08, Shawn McKenzie wrote: Jim Lucas wrote: > Hope this helps. I am working on a set of php classes that will be able to read the text with the formatting included and convert it to a standard document format. The standard format that it will end up in has yet "has yet"... what? Are you O.K. Jim? Did you die while writing this? If he did, at least we got the code. :-) Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] How to fetch .DOC or .DOCX file in php
At 10:59 AM -0800 12/4/08, Jim Lucas wrote: Ah, not true about the MS requirement. If all you want is the clear/clean text (without any formatting), then I can do it with php on any platform. If this is what is needed, here is the code to do it. Hope this helps. -- Jim Lucas Jim: Most excellent code! I was considering a way for clients to post directly from MS word into a form requiring text-only. No matter how many times I tell them "text only" they keep cut-pasting directly from a formatted Word document and wondering "Where did those characters come from?" Thanks, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] How to fetch .DOC or .DOCX file in php
Shawn McKenzie wrote:
> Jim Lucas wrote:
>> Boyd, Todd M. wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Jagdeep Singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 8:39 AM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] How to fetch .DOC or .DOCX file in php
Importance: Low
Hi !
I want to fetch text from .doc / .docx file and save it into database
file.
But when I tried to fetch text with fopen/fgets etc ... It gave me
special
characters with text.
(With .txt files everything is fine)
Only problem is with doc/docx files.
I dont know whow to remove "SPECIAL CHARACTERS" from this text ...
>>> A.) This has been handled on this list several times. Please search the
>>> archives before posting a question.
>>> B.) Did you even TRY to Google for this? In the first 5 matches for "php
>>> open ms word" I found this:
>>>
>>> http://www.developertutorials.com/blog/php/extracting-text-from-word-doc
>>> uments-via-php-and-com-81/
>>>
>>> You will need an MS Windows machine for this solution to work. If you're
>>> using *nix... well... good luck.
>>>
>>>
>>> // Todd
>>>
>> Ah, not true about the MS requirement. If all you want is the clear/clean
>> text (without any formatting), then I can do it with php on any platform.
>>
>> If this is what is needed, here is the code to do it.
>>
>> >
>> $filename = './12345.doc';
>> if ( file_exists($filename) ) {
>>
>> if ( ($fh = fopen($filename, 'r')) !== false ) {
>>
>> $headers = fread($fh, 0xA00);
>>
>> # 1 = (ord(n)*1) ; Document has from 0 to 255 characters
>> $n1 = ( ord($headers[0x21C]) - 1 );
>>
>> # 1 = ((ord(n)-8)*256) ; Document has from 256 to 63743
>> characters
>> $n2 = ( ( ord($headers[0x21D]) - 8 ) * 256 );
>>
>> # 1 = ((ord(n)*256)*256) ; Document has from 63744 to 16775423
>> characters
>> $n3 = ( ( ord($headers[0x21E]) * 256 ) * 256 );
>>
>> # (((ord(n)*256)*256)*256) ; Document has from 16775424 to
>> 4294965504 characters
>> $n4 = ( ( ( ord($headers[0x21F]) * 256 ) * 256 ) * 256 );
>>
>> # Total length of text in the document
>> $textLength = ($n1 + $n2 + $n3 + $n4);
>>
>> $extracted_plaintext = fread($fh, $textLength);
>>
>> # if you want the plain text with no formatting, do this
>> echo $extracted_plaintext;
>>
>> # if you want to see your paragraphs in a web page, do this
>> echo nl2br($extracted_plaintext);
>>
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
>> ?>
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> I am working on a set of php classes that will be able to read the text with
>> the formatting included and convert it to a standard document format.
>> The standard format that it will end up in has yet
>>
> "has yet"... what?
>
> Are you O.K. Jim? Did you die while writing this?
>
Sorry, still kickin'
I was going to say that I haven't yet decided on what the final output format
is going to be. Probably either rtf or OpenXML.
How about I ask for suggestions on what would be the best format to store the
final copy.
I figured that this tool would mainly be used for .doc to web conversion, but I
guess it could be used to also convert to other document formats too.
But, I would like to have the ability to at least store the formating inline
with the text. So, either some form of xml. Be it (x)HTML or plain XML
or even OpenXML.
A question to all then. How would you like to see the text, with formating,
stored?
All suggestions welcome!
--
Jim Lucas
"Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon them."
Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V
by William Shakespeare
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Re: [PHP] How to fetch .DOC or .DOCX file in php
Jim Lucas wrote:
> Boyd, Todd M. wrote:
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: Jagdeep Singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 8:39 AM
>>> To: php-general@lists.php.net
>>> Subject: [PHP] How to fetch .DOC or .DOCX file in php
>>> Importance: Low
>>>
>>> Hi !
>>>
>>> I want to fetch text from .doc / .docx file and save it into database
>>> file.
>>> But when I tried to fetch text with fopen/fgets etc ... It gave me
>>> special
>>> characters with text.
>>>
>>> (With .txt files everything is fine)
>>> Only problem is with doc/docx files.
>>> I dont know whow to remove "SPECIAL CHARACTERS" from this text ...
>> A.) This has been handled on this list several times. Please search the
>> archives before posting a question.
>> B.) Did you even TRY to Google for this? In the first 5 matches for "php
>> open ms word" I found this:
>>
>> http://www.developertutorials.com/blog/php/extracting-text-from-word-doc
>> uments-via-php-and-com-81/
>>
>> You will need an MS Windows machine for this solution to work. If you're
>> using *nix... well... good luck.
>>
>>
>> // Todd
>>
>
> Ah, not true about the MS requirement. If all you want is the clear/clean
> text (without any formatting), then I can do it with php on any platform.
>
> If this is what is needed, here is the code to do it.
>
>
> $filename = './12345.doc';
> if ( file_exists($filename) ) {
>
> if ( ($fh = fopen($filename, 'r')) !== false ) {
>
> $headers = fread($fh, 0xA00);
>
> # 1 = (ord(n)*1) ; Document has from 0 to 255 characters
> $n1 = ( ord($headers[0x21C]) - 1 );
>
> # 1 = ((ord(n)-8)*256) ; Document has from 256 to 63743
> characters
> $n2 = ( ( ord($headers[0x21D]) - 8 ) * 256 );
>
> # 1 = ((ord(n)*256)*256) ; Document has from 63744 to 16775423
> characters
> $n3 = ( ( ord($headers[0x21E]) * 256 ) * 256 );
>
> # (((ord(n)*256)*256)*256) ; Document has from 16775424 to
> 4294965504 characters
> $n4 = ( ( ( ord($headers[0x21F]) * 256 ) * 256 ) * 256 );
>
> # Total length of text in the document
> $textLength = ($n1 + $n2 + $n3 + $n4);
>
> $extracted_plaintext = fread($fh, $textLength);
>
> # if you want the plain text with no formatting, do this
> echo $extracted_plaintext;
>
> # if you want to see your paragraphs in a web page, do this
> echo nl2br($extracted_plaintext);
>
> }
>
> }
>
> ?>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> I am working on a set of php classes that will be able to read the text with
> the formatting included and convert it to a standard document format.
> The standard format that it will end up in has yet
>
"has yet"... what?
Are you O.K. Jim? Did you die while writing this?
--
Thanks!
-Shawn
http://www.spidean.com
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Re: [PHP] How to fetch .DOC or .DOCX file in php
Boyd, Todd M. wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Jagdeep Singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 8:39 AM >> To: php-general@lists.php.net >> Subject: [PHP] How to fetch .DOC or .DOCX file in php >> Importance: Low >> >> Hi ! >> >> I want to fetch text from .doc / .docx file and save it into database >> file. >> But when I tried to fetch text with fopen/fgets etc ... It gave me >> special >> characters with text. >> >> (With .txt files everything is fine) >> Only problem is with doc/docx files. >> I dont know whow to remove "SPECIAL CHARACTERS" from this text ... > > A.) This has been handled on this list several times. Please search the > archives before posting a question. > B.) Did you even TRY to Google for this? In the first 5 matches for "php > open ms word" I found this: > > http://www.developertutorials.com/blog/php/extracting-text-from-word-doc > uments-via-php-and-com-81/ > > You will need an MS Windows machine for this solution to work. If you're > using *nix... well... good luck. > > > // Todd > Ah, not true about the MS requirement. If all you want is the clear/clean text (without any formatting), then I can do it with php on any platform. If this is what is needed, here is the code to do it. Hope this helps. I am working on a set of php classes that will be able to read the text with the formatting included and convert it to a standard document format. The standard format that it will end up in has yet -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] How to fetch .DOC or .DOCX file in php
> -Original Message- > From: Jagdeep Singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 8:39 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] How to fetch .DOC or .DOCX file in php > Importance: Low > > Hi ! > > I want to fetch text from .doc / .docx file and save it into database > file. > But when I tried to fetch text with fopen/fgets etc ... It gave me > special > characters with text. > > (With .txt files everything is fine) > Only problem is with doc/docx files. > I dont know whow to remove "SPECIAL CHARACTERS" from this text ... A.) This has been handled on this list several times. Please search the archives before posting a question. B.) Did you even TRY to Google for this? In the first 5 matches for "php open ms word" I found this: http://www.developertutorials.com/blog/php/extracting-text-from-word-doc uments-via-php-and-com-81/ You will need an MS Windows machine for this solution to work. If you're using *nix... well... good luck. // Todd -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
