Re: [PHP] Reading a Word document from PHP

2008-09-23 Thread clive
Hi I know the new microsoft docx format is an xml document, 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 Ashley

Re: [PHP] Reading a Word document from PHP

2008-09-23 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 08:51 +0200, clive wrote: Hi I know the new microsoft docx format is an xml document, 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

Re: [PHP] Reading a Word document from PHP

2008-09-23 Thread Robert Cummings
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 08:40 +0100, Ashley Sheridan wrote: Unfortunately I'm stuck trying to extract text from a Word document 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

Re: [PHP] Reading a Word document from PHP

2008-09-23 Thread Lupus Michaelis
Robert Cummings a écrit : 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 documents to plain text. If you're on Debian, seek for the openoffice.org-headless package ;) -- Mickaël Wolff aka Lupus

[PHP] Reading a Word document from PHP

2008-09-22 Thread Ashley Sheridan
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

Re: [PHP] Reading a Word document from PHP

2008-09-22 Thread Bastien Koert
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Ashley Sheridan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: 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

Re: [PHP] Reading a Word document from PHP

2008-09-22 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 16:47 -0400, Bastien Koert wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Ashley Sheridan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I recently asked a question regarding reading a PDF with PHP. I've tried Zend_pdf, but all this is able to

Re: [PHP] Reading a Word document from PHP

2008-09-22 Thread Bastien Koert
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Ashley Sheridan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 16:47 -0400, Bastien Koert wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Ashley Sheridan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I recently asked a question regarding reading a PDF

RE: [PHP] Reading a Word document from PHP

2008-09-22 Thread Boyd, Todd M.
-Original Message- From: Bastien Koert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 4:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: php-general Subject: Re: [PHP] Reading a Word document from PHP On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Ashley Sheridan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Mon

Re: [PHP] Reading a Word document from PHP

2008-09-22 Thread Eric Butera
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Ashley Sheridan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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