Comments on: Read PDF and Word DOC Files Using PHP

By: prase

prase — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:53:36 +0000

Hello i have tried your tutorial, i tried in local host. But nothing happen, can you give me solution ??

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By: felix

felix — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:36:52 +0000

$filename = '/var/www/myfiles/mydoc.doc'; $content = shell_exec('/usr/local/bin/antiword '.$filename); echo $content;

By: felix

felix — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:35:15 +0000

By: felix

felix — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:33:29 +0000

I wonder if anyone actually get it to work. I’ve tried but it doesn’t work for me. Dyo, did you actually get it to work? How did you do different or what kind of web server you running on? I’ve tried it on Ubuntu10.04, Apache2 with PHP5. can you share your code here? Here’s mine:

By: dyo

dyo — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:57:16 +0000

i’ve been using this. not bad at all. good work around. sadly antiword can’t read docx files

By: dyo

dyo — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:23:59 +0000

is there any windows version?

By: Marcelo de Almeida Braga

Marcelo de Almeida Braga — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:51:43 +0000

On the local server (wamp) the code works. In the web server (linux) do not get the file’s contents.

$content = shell_exec(“pdftotext”. “sumario.pdf.” ‘ -’);
echo $ content;

Thanks in advance.

By: SP

SP — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:08:00 +0000

I got the solution :
$content = shell_exec(‘/usr/bin/antiword -f -w 0 formatting.doc’);
I forgot about -w argument, it will give you whole line or you can define value of -w as required width of line like 30, 40 etc.

By: chaos

chaos — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:20:26 +0000

antiword works like a charm from shell but i only get a slightly fucked up first line in my var if i run it from php, can u tell me what i’m doing wrong? :)