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Strip out content from Microsoft files using PHP

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Jul 20.2004

Has anyone tried to use PHP to strip out textual content from any Microsoft documents, such as Word or Powerpoint?

We currently use “pdftotext” for stripping out textual content from PDF documents but in producing a searchable file library it would be nice if we could search / strip out content from Microsoft files.

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@ShrineDesignsJul 20.2004 — don't use microsoft products an you wont have to deal with this problem
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@iamlucky13Jul 20.2004 — I thought I had a good idea, but after a quick check, I don't know how easy it would be to make it work.

If you open a word document in notepad, you'll there is a lot of funny characters (eg: ÕÍÕœ.) and content appears as regular text. The idea was to search the files for letters and numbers only, and fill that into a database. Unfortunately, words like Microsoft, Title, inventory, and table show up in the file, so you would have to deal with those somehow, as well. Plus, I only tried it with plain text. I don't know what you get when your .doc has images, tables, wordart, etc. in it.

Anyhow, Google does it, so it's obviously possible if you know the ancient secrets of the Perl Mages.
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@Kyleva2204Jul 20.2004 — theres a PHP program on hotscripts.com that can do this.. I cant remember what its called.. but just look for it.. Im sure u can find it..
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@Kyleva2204Jul 20.2004 — http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/13628.html theres a lil sumtin sumtin that can strip content from MS Word.. but im not sure if it can search and stip.. :-
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@pingu_lettersauthorJul 21.2004 — Cheers guys. I did write a quick and dirty regular expression that stripped out characters, numbers and some punctuation as a temporary measure but will now head over to hotscripts and see what I can find.
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