PHP Document Reader (txt, docx, wps etc.)

I'm looking for a PHP class that is able to open common document f开发者_JAVA技巧ormats such as .txt, .docx, .doc, .wps. The main documents that need to be opened are MS text documents and Open Office.

Do any free or paid classes exist?

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you could load them into google docs and export them in a suitable format, via the api.

phpexcel can read excel docs.

if you are running on a windows server and you have office installed you can use com classes to access word docs etc.

this looks interesting, but i haven't used personally

http://www.phplivedocx.org/2009/08/13/convert-docx-doc-rtf-to-html-in-php/

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You can read in text files with $contents = file_get_contents('file.txt').

I use http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ to extract the text from doc files for indexing purposes. I can't vouch for the usability of the output for other uses, but it's good enough for text search. It's a shell tool, so you'll eed to call it with exec() or similar. This might not work if you're on a relatively restricted shared hosting system.

For reading Excel files I use http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpexcelreader/ which I'm pretty happy with. Note that there are multiple excel formats and you might have to account for that.

Can't help with wps I'm afraid.