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Package php-document-parser
Short Description A PHP parser for getting the text from a .doc, .docx, .rtf or .txt file
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PHP DocumentParser
A PHP parser for getting the text from a .doc, .docx, .rtf or .txt file
Authors
- @facuonline
- Luke Madhanga @LukeMadhanga
This library is perfect if you want users to be able to upload word documents to your content management system, instead of forcing them to copy and paste. Supported file types are .doc, .docx, .txt and .rtf.
composer require lukemadhanga/php-document-parser
May require you to install PHP Zip
sudo apt-get install php7.0-zip
The above Ubuntu
command will vary depending on your version of PHP and what OS is running on your server
Methods
parseFromFile
Parse a document from a file
Arguments
string $filename
The path to the file to parse
string $mimetype
The mimetype of the file. This will be used to determine which algorithm to use when decoding
returns string The text from the file
parseFromString
Parse a file from a string
Arguments
string $string
The contents of the file to parse
string $mimetype
The mimetype of the file. This will be used to determine which algorithm to use when decoding
returns string The text in the document
Change log
September 21 2019 (0.1.4)
Better ODT Support Merged in PR#13 for better ODT support. Author: facuonline
August 1 2019 (0.1.3)
PHP Unit Merged in PR#12 for PHP Unit testing. Author: facuonline
March 21 2019 (0.1.2)
DOCX Handling Merged in PR#10 For better DOCX handling. Includes bug fixes for exception handling. Author: facuonline
September 13th 2017
Added composer
composer require lukemadhanga/php-document-parser
April 29th 2016
Improved .doc process
The script to parse .doc files is unreliable: it breaks on complicated documents. I would suggest installing the antiword
command line utility as that works almost perfectly for the larger majority of documents.