Convert doc to txt

Question

I'm on a Linux server and I need to convert MS Word 97-2003 .doc format to plain text .txt files using PHP

I already tried this solutions:

How to extract text from word file .doc,docx,.xlsx,.pptx php

But both are just working fine for .docx format.

The issue is when I convert files, I got scrap characters at the end of the text. The length of the chars I don't need vary depending on the length of the file. Also, it may happen that if the file is a bit long, it get truncated.

Is there any simple way to get this converted?

Well, as simple I mean without using external apps like Apache POI or other Java stuff or Antiword... — Dario Emerson, Mar 27 '14 at 10:18
You'll always need a library for this because PHP natively doesn't support this — kero, Mar 27 '14 at 10:30

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 31 '19 at 09:04

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I've lastly come to use the following solution, launching Antiword:

private function doc() {
    $file = escapeshellarg($this->filename);
    $text = `/usr/sbin/antiword -w 0 $file`;
    return html_entity_decode(utf8_encode(trim($text)));
}

answered May 31 '19 at 09:04

Dario Emerson

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score -2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 27 '14 at 10:53

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I answer my own question. After a bit of search, I found out this lib from iFile: http://www.isapp.it/ifile/it/APIDocument_v1.2/ifile/adapter-helpers/_adapter---helpers---class.doc2txt.php.html

It's actually working very well for both .doc and .rtf

answered Mar 27 '14 at 10:53

Dario Emerson

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putting a link is not a good solution please add how you did it – Waqleh Jan 31 '15 at 09:28
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The link is broken – user1728363 May 24 '19 at 11:54

Convert doc to txt

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