PC Tips & Tricks

Ever wanted to extract text from a Microsoft Word document with PHP and COM? It’s not so hard as it seems. Create a Word document on your computer and use this piece of code:

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<?php
$word = new COM("word.application") or die("Unable to instantiate application object");
$name='c:\\TEST.doc';
	try {
 
		$word->Documents->Open("$name");
		$content = (string) $word->ActiveDocument->Content;
		$word->ActiveDocument->Close(false);
	}
	catch(Exception $e){
		$content="Error!";
	}
	echo $content;
?>

You can even parse a folder and get text from every .doc file in the folder.

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