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Manojkumar
Manojkumar

Reputation: 1361

How to convert old MS Word documents to plain text?

I want to get textual content from MSword 03 or older versions. Is there a script or software package that can do this?

I am able to get text out of word files for 2007 documents. I am not able to get the same from older versions (.doc).

I am using apache2 and php mysql.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2851

Answers (3)

Stephen Senkomago Musoke
Stephen Senkomago Musoke

Reputation: 3523

You can use LiveDocx which handles all MS Word Files including RTF http://www.phplivedocx.org/2009/08/13/convert-docx-doc-rtf-to-html-in-php/

Upvotes: 1

Shiven
Shiven

Reputation: 206

Here's a PHP class for ms word documents at http://obninsk.name/obninsk_doc/ .

Upvotes: 1

cweiske
cweiske

Reputation: 31068

Try catdoc, which converts any .doc file into plain text. See the catdoc homepage.

Upvotes: 1

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