Reading DOC file in php

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I'm trying to read .doc .docx file in php. All is working fine. But at last line I'm getting awful characters. Please help me. Here is code which is developed by someone.

    function parseWord($userDoc) 
{
    $fileHandle = fopen($userDoc, "r");
    $line = @fread($fileHandle, filesize($userDoc));   
    $lines = explode(chr(0x0D),$line);
    $outtext = "";
    foreach($lines as $thisline)
      {
        $pos = strpos($thisline, chr(0x00));
        if (($pos !== FALSE)||(strlen($thisline)==0))
          {
          } else {
            $outtext .= $thisline." ";
          }
      }
     $outtext = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s\,\.\-\n\r\t@\/\_\(\)]/","",$outtext);
    return $outtext;
} 

$userDoc = "k.doc";

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/188452/reading-writing-a-ms-word-file-in-php — Vladislav Rastrusny, Sep 09 '11 at 08:07
Managed to solve this @no_freedom ? I've tried http://stackoverflow.com/a/5534093/1794894 but it resulted in a partial file. — Rvanlaak, Feb 27 '15 at 10:09

score 15 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 12 '12 at 08:10

You can read .docx files in PHP but you can't read .doc files. Here is the code to read .docx files:

function read_file_docx($filename){

    $striped_content = '';
    $content = '';

    if(!$filename || !file_exists($filename)) return false;

    $zip = zip_open($filename);

    if (!$zip || is_numeric($zip)) return false;

    while ($zip_entry = zip_read($zip)) {

        if (zip_entry_open($zip, $zip_entry) == FALSE) continue;

        if (zip_entry_name($zip_entry) != "word/document.xml") continue;

        $content .= zip_entry_read($zip_entry, zip_entry_filesize($zip_entry));

        zip_entry_close($zip_entry);
    }// end while

    zip_close($zip);

    //echo $content;
    //echo "<hr>";
    //file_put_contents('1.xml', $content);

    $content = str_replace('</w:r></w:p></w:tc><w:tc>', " ", $content);
    $content = str_replace('</w:r></w:p>', "\r\n", $content);
    $striped_content = strip_tags($content);

    return $striped_content;
}
$filename = "filepath";// or /var/www/html/file.docx

$content = read_file_docx($filename);
if($content !== false) {

    echo nl2br($content);
}
else {
    echo 'Couldn\'t the file. Please check that file.';
}

Welcome on SO, here, it is a good practice to explain why to use your solution and not just how. That will make your answer more valuable and help further reader to have a better understanding of how you do it. I also suggest that you have a look on our FAQ : http://stackoverflow.com/faq. — ForceMagic, Nov 12 '12 at 08:08
@user1817444 It is only reading text from doc, How to get the images with it? images as binary data will also works — Sanuj, Sep 17 '16 at 11:13

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 21 '21 at 19:26

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DOC files are not plain text.

Try a library such as PHPWord (old CodePlex site).

nb: This answer has been updated multiple times as PHPWord has changed hosting and functionality.

edited Jul 21 '21 at 19:26

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answered Sep 09 '11 at 08:05

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And .docx is a .zipped package of multiple files – Janis Veinbergs Sep 09 '11 at 08:06
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@Steve-o I want to count all the words from doc file. Is it possible with PHPword? – no_freedom Sep 09 '11 at 08:57
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ALso, please note that PHPWord is __NOT__ by Microsoft: it's written as a free Open Source library by a group of independent developers and not supported or endorsed by MS in any way – Mark Baker Aug 29 '13 at 08:38
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Note also that PHPWord does now read BIFF format .doc files, as well as OfficeOpenXML .docx files, and a number of other formats as well – Mark Baker Jun 02 '15 at 13:10
Note also that PHPWord is officially hosted on github now, not on codeplex – Mark Baker Jun 02 '15 at 13:10

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 07 '13 at 12:11

I am using this function working well for me :) try it

function read_doc_file($filename) {
     if(file_exists($filename))
    {
        if(($fh = fopen($filename, 'r')) !== false ) 
        {
           $headers = fread($fh, 0xA00);

           // 1 = (ord(n)*1) ; Document has from 0 to 255 characters
           $n1 = ( ord($headers[0x21C]) - 1 );

           // 1 = ((ord(n)-8)*256) ; Document has from 256 to 63743 characters
           $n2 = ( ( ord($headers[0x21D]) - 8 ) * 256 );

           // 1 = ((ord(n)*256)*256) ; Document has from 63744 to 16775423 characters
           $n3 = ( ( ord($headers[0x21E]) * 256 ) * 256 );

           // 1 = (((ord(n)*256)*256)*256) ; Document has from 16775424 to 4294965504 characters
           $n4 = ( ( ( ord($headers[0x21F]) * 256 ) * 256 ) * 256 );

           // Total length of text in the document
           $textLength = ($n1 + $n2 + $n3 + $n4);

           $extracted_plaintext = fread($fh, $textLength);

           // simple print character stream without new lines
           //echo $extracted_plaintext;

           // if you want to see your paragraphs in a new line, do this
           return nl2br($extracted_plaintext);
           // need more spacing after each paragraph use another nl2br
        }
    }   
    }

This function works on to read the doc file but I guess only UTF encoded file. Can you please tell me why the other encoding does not work? I tried to read some file using this function and it does not work for all. The only difference I see is the encoding. — Ujjwal Prajapati, Nov 06 '13 at 05:53
After half an hour of searching a simple answer to read a doc file. I got this answer finally which solved my problem. — rahul, Jan 05 '16 at 13:41

score 3 · Answer 4 · edited Jul 21 '21 at 19:42

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Decoding in pure PHP never worked for me, so here is my solution : http://wvware.sourceforge.net/

Install package

sudo apt-get install wv elinks

Use it in PHP :

$output = str_replace('.doc', '.txt', $filename);
shell_exec('/usr/bin/wvText ' . $filename . ' ' . $output);
$text = file_get_contents($output);
# Convert to UTF-8 if needed
if(!mb_detect_encoding($text, 'UTF-8', true))
{
    $text = utf8_encode($text);
}
unlink($output);

edited Jul 21 '21 at 19:42

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answered Mar 21 '16 at 13:40

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thank you so much @hugsbrugs this is the only way to make it work as I wanted :) – Angel M. Jul 23 '18 at 11:10

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 15 '15 at 01:26

I also used it but for accents ( and single quotes like ' ) it would put � instead SOo my PDO mySQL didn't like it but I finally figured it out by adding

mb_convert_encoding($extracted_plaintext,'UTF-8');

So the final version should read:

function getRawWordText($filename) {
    if(file_exists($filename)) {
        if(($fh = fopen($filename, 'r')) !== false ) {
            $headers = fread($fh, 0xA00);
            $n1 = ( ord($headers[0x21C]) - 1 );// 1 = (ord(n)*1) ; Document has from 0 to 255 characters
            $n2 = ( ( ord($headers[0x21D]) - 8 ) * 256 );// 1 = ((ord(n)-8)*256) ; Document has from 256 to 63743 characters
            $n3 = ( ( ord($headers[0x21E]) * 256 ) * 256 );// 1 = ((ord(n)*256)*256) ; Document has from 63744 to 16775423 characters
            $n4 = ( ( ( ord($headers[0x21F]) * 256 ) * 256 ) * 256 );// 1 = (((ord(n)*256)*256)*256) ; Document has from 16775424 to 4294965504 characters
            $textLength = ($n1 + $n2 + $n3 + $n4);// Total length of text in the document
            $extracted_plaintext = fread($fh, $textLength);
            $extracted_plaintext = mb_convert_encoding($extracted_plaintext,'UTF-8');
             // if you want to see your paragraphs in a new line, do this
             // return nl2br($extracted_plaintext);
             return ($extracted_plaintext);
        } else {
            return false;
        }
    } else {
        return false;
    }  
}

This works fine in a utf8_general_ci mySQL database to read word doc files :)

Hope this helps someone else

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 05 '18 at 13:43

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I'm using soffice to convert doc to txt and read txt converted file

soffice --convert-to txt test.doc

you can see more in here

answered Nov 05 '18 at 13:43

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