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 Mic

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 wh

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

2008-09-22 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

2008-09-22 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

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 &g

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

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

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

[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 Wor