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

Question

There may be a scenario we need to get the text from word documents for the future use to search the string in the document uploaded by user like for searching in cv's/resumes and occurs a common problem that how to get the text , Open and read a user uploaded Word document,there are some helpful links but don't cure the whole problem.We need to get the text at the time of uploading and save text in database and we can easily search within the database.

Answer 1

Here is a simple class which does the right job for .doc/.docx , PHP docx reader: Convert MS Word Docx files to text.

    class DocxConversion{
    private $filename;

    public function __construct($filePath) {
        $this->filename = $filePath;
    }

    private function read_doc() {
        $fileHandle = fopen($this->filename, "r");
        $line = @fread($fileHandle, filesize($this->filename));   
        $lines = explode(chr(0x0D),$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;
    }

    private function read_docx(){

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

        $zip = zip_open($this->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);

        $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;
    }

 /************************excel sheet************************************/

function xlsx_to_text($input_file){
    $xml_filename = "xl/sharedStrings.xml"; //content file name
    $zip_handle = new ZipArchive;
    $output_text = "";
    if(true === $zip_handle->open($input_file)){
        if(($xml_index = $zip_handle->locateName($xml_filename)) !== false){
            $xml_datas = $zip_handle->getFromIndex($xml_index);
            $xml_handle = DOMDocument::loadXML($xml_datas, LIBXML_NOENT | LIBXML_XINCLUDE | LIBXML_NOERROR | LIBXML_NOWARNING);
            $output_text = strip_tags($xml_handle->saveXML());
        }else{
            $output_text .="";
        }
        $zip_handle->close();
    }else{
    $output_text .="";
    }
    return $output_text;
}

/*************************power point files*****************************/
function pptx_to_text($input_file){
    $zip_handle = new ZipArchive;
    $output_text = "";
    if(true === $zip_handle->open($input_file)){
        $slide_number = 1; //loop through slide files
        while(($xml_index = $zip_handle->locateName("ppt/slides/slide".$slide_number.".xml")) !== false){
            $xml_datas = $zip_handle->getFromIndex($xml_index);
            $xml_handle = DOMDocument::loadXML($xml_datas, LIBXML_NOENT | LIBXML_XINCLUDE | LIBXML_NOERROR | LIBXML_NOWARNING);
            $output_text .= strip_tags($xml_handle->saveXML());
            $slide_number++;
        }
        if($slide_number == 1){
            $output_text .="";
        }
        $zip_handle->close();
    }else{
    $output_text .="";
    }
    return $output_text;
}


    public function convertToText() {

        if(isset($this->filename) && !file_exists($this->filename)) {
            return "File Not exists";
        }

        $fileArray = pathinfo($this->filename);
        $file_ext  = $fileArray['extension'];
        if($file_ext == "doc" || $file_ext == "docx" || $file_ext == "xlsx" || $file_ext == "pptx")
        {
            if($file_ext == "doc") {
                return $this->read_doc();
            } elseif($file_ext == "docx") {
                return $this->read_docx();
            } elseif($file_ext == "xlsx") {
                return $this->xlsx_to_text();
            }elseif($file_ext == "pptx") {
                return $this->pptx_to_text();
            }
        } else {
            return "Invalid File Type";
        }
    }

}

Document_file_format Doc files are binary blobs.They can be read by using fopen.While .docx files are just zip files and xml files xml files in a zipfile container (source wikipedia) you can read them by using zip_open.

Usage of above class

$docObj = new DocxConversion("test.doc");
//$docObj = new DocxConversion("test.docx");
//$docObj = new DocxConversion("test.xlsx");
//$docObj = new DocxConversion("test.pptx");
echo $docText= $docObj->convertToText();

Answer 2

From DOC file

$filename = 'ypue file';         
    if ( file_exists($filename) ) {        

    if ( ($fh = fopen($filename, 'r')) !== false ) {

    $headers = fread($fh, 0xA00);

    $n1 = ( ord($headers[0x21C]) - 1 );

    $n2 = ( ( ord($headers[0x21D]) - 8 ) * 256 );

    $n3 = ( ( ord($headers[0x21E]) * 256 ) * 256 );

    $n4 = ( ( ( ord($headers[0x21F]) * 256 ) * 256 ) * 256 );


    $textLength = ($n1 + $n2 + $n3 + $n4);

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

    echo nl2br($extracted_plaintext);

    print_r(extract_emails_from($extracted_plaintext));    

         }

        }

    function extract_emails_from($string) {
             preg_match_all("/[\._a-zA-Z0-9-]+@[\._a-zA-Z0-9-]+/i", $string, $matches);
             return $matches[0];
    }

From DOCX :

    /*Name of the document file*/
    $document = 'your file';

    /**Function to extract text*/
    function extracttext($filename) {
        //Check for extension
        $ext = end(explode('.', $filename));

    //if its docx file
    if($ext == 'docx')
    $dataFile = "word/document.xml";
    //else it must be odt file
    else
    $dataFile = "content.xml";     

    //Create a new ZIP archive object
    $zip = new ZipArchive;

    // Open the archive file
    if (true === $zip->open($filename)) {
        // If successful, search for the data file in the archive
        if (($index = $zip->locateName($dataFile)) !== false) {
            // Index found! Now read it to a string
            $text = $zip->getFromIndex($index);
            // Load XML from a string
            // Ignore errors and warnings
            $xml = DOMDocument::loadXML($text, LIBXML_NOENT | LIBXML_XINCLUDE | LIBXML_NOERROR | LIBXML_NOWARNING);
            // Remove XML formatting tags and return the text
            return strip_tags($xml->saveXML());
        }
        //Close the archive file
        $zip->close();
    }

    // In case of failure return a message
    return "File not found";
}

echo extracttext($document);

Answer 3

//For DOCX.If you want to preserve white spaces, also take care of tables tr and tc, use the codes below: Modify it to your taste. Cos it downloads the file from a remote or local

//=========DOCX===========
function extractDocxText($url,$file_name){
        $docx = get_url($url);
        file_put_contents("tempf.docx",$docx);
        $xml_filename = "word/document.xml"; //content file name
        $zip_handle = new ZipArchive;
        $output_text = "";
        if(true === $zip_handle->open("tempf.docx")){
            if(($xml_index = $zip_handle->locateName($xml_filename)) !== false){
                $xml_datas = $zip_handle->getFromIndex($xml_index);
                //file_put_contents($input_file.".xml",$xml_datas);
                $replace_newlines = preg_replace('/<w:p w[0-9-Za-z]+:[a-zA-Z0-9]+="[a-zA-z"0-9 :="]+">/',"\n\r",$xml_datas);
                $replace_tableRows = preg_replace('/<w:tr>/',"\n\r",$replace_newlines);
                $replace_tab = preg_replace('/<w:tab\/>/',"\t",$replace_tableRows);
                $replace_paragraphs = preg_replace('/<\/w:p>/',"\n\r",$replace_tab);
                $replace_other_Tags = strip_tags($replace_paragraphs);          
                $output_text = $replace_other_Tags;
            }else{
                $output_text .="";
            }
            $zip_handle->close();
        }else{
        $output_text .=" ";
        }
        chmod("tempf.docx", 0777);  unlink(realpath("tempf.docx"));
        //save to file or echo content
        file_put_contents($file_name,$output_text);
        echo $output_text;
    }

//========PDF===========
//Requires installation in your Linux server
//sudo su
//apt-get install xpdf
function extractPdfText($url,$PDF_fullpath_or_Filename){
    $pdf = get_url($url);
    file_put_contents ("temppdf.txt", $pdf);
    $content = pdf2text("temppdf.txt");
    chmod("temppdf.txt", 0777); unlink(realpath("temppdf.txt"));
    echo $content;
    file_put_contents($PDF_fullpath_or_Filename,$content);
    }



//========DOC==========
function extractDocText($url,$file_name){
    $doc = get_url($url);
    file_put_contents ("tempf.txt", $doc);

    $fileHandle = fopen("tempf.txt", "r");
    $line = @fread($fileHandle, filesize("tempf.txt"));
    $lines = explode(chr(0x0D),$line);
    $outtext = "";
    foreach($lines as $thisline){
        $pos = strpos($thisline, chr(0x00));
        if (($pos !== FALSE)||(strlen($thisline)==0))
        {} else {$outtext .= $thisline."\n\r";}
        }
    $content = preg_replace('/[a-zA-Z0-9\s\,\.\-\n\r\t@\/\_\(\)]/','  ',$outtext);

    //chmod("tempf.txt", 0777); unlink(realpath("tempf.txt"));
    echo $content;
    file_put_contents($file_name,$content);
    }


//========XLSX==========
function extractXlsxText($url,$file_name){
    $xlsx = get_url($url);
    file_put_contents ("tempf.txt", $xlsx);
    $content = "";
    $dir = 'tempforxlsx';
    // Unzip
    $zip = new ZipArchive();
    $zip->open("tempf.txt");
    $zip->extractTo($dir);
    // Open up shared strings & the first worksheet
    $strings = simplexml_load_file($dir . '/xl/sharedStrings.xml');
    $sheet   = simplexml_load_file($dir . '/xl/worksheets/sheet1.xml');
    // Parse the rows
    $xlrows = $sheet->sheetData->row;
    foreach ($xlrows as $xlrow) {
        $arr = array();

        // In each row, grab it's value
        foreach ($xlrow->c as $cell) {
            $v = (string) $cell->v;

            // If it has a "t" (type?) of "s" (string?), use the value to look up string value
            if (isset($cell['t']) && $cell['t'] == 's') {
                $s  = array();
                $si = $strings->si[(int) $v];

                // Register & alias the default namespace or you'll get empty results in the xpath query
                $si->registerXPathNamespace('n', 'http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/spreadsheetml/2006/main');
                // Cat together all of the 't' (text?) node values
                foreach($si->xpath('.//n:t') as $t) {
                    $content .= $t."  ";}   }
            }
        }
    echo $content;
    file_put_contents($file_name,$content);
    }


//========PPT========== 
function extractPptText($url,$file_name){
    $ppt = file_get_contents($url);
    file_put_contents ("tempf.ppt", $ppt);
    $fileHandle = fopen("tempf.ppt", "r");
    $line = @fread($fileHandle, filesize("tempf.ppt"));
    $lines = explode(chr(0x0f),$line);
    $outtext = '';

    foreach($lines as $thisline) {
        if (strpos($thisline, chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00)) == 1) {
            $text_line = substr($thisline, 4);
            $end_pos   = strpos($text_line, chr(0x00));
            $text_line = substr($text_line, 0, $end_pos);
            $text_line = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s\,\.\-\n\r\t@\/\_\(\)]/',"  ",$text_line);
            $outtext = substr($text_line, 0, $end_pos)."\n".$outtext;
        }
    }
    //echo $outtext;
    file_put_contents($file_name,$outtext);
    }

//========PPTX==========
function extractPptxText($url,$file_name){
    $xls = get_url($url);
    file_put_contents ("tempf.txt", $xls);
    $zip_handle = new ZipArchive;
    $output_text = ' ';
    if(true === $zip_handle->open("tempf.txt")){
        $slide_number = 1; //loop through slide files
        while(($xml_index = $zip_handle->locateName("ppt/slides/slide".$slide_number.".xml")) !== false){
            $xml_datas = $zip_handle->getFromIndex($xml_index); // these four lines of codes
                                                                // below were
            $xml_handle = new DOMDocument ();                   // added by me in order
            $xml_handle->preserveWhiteSpace = true;             // to preserve space between
            $xml_handle->formatOutput = true;                   // each read data
            $xml_handle->loadXML($xml_datas, LIBXML_NOENT | LIBXML_XINCLUDE | LIBXML_NOERROR | LIBXML_NOWARNING);
            $output_text .= $xml_handle->saveXML();
            $slide_number++;
            }
        if($slide_number == 1){
            $output_text .= "";
        }
        $zip_handle->close();
    }else{
    $output_text .= "";
    }
    echo $output_text;
    file_put_contents($file_name,$output_text);
    }

    /*

==========================================================================
=========================================================================
And below is get_url() function: Better than fie_get_contents();
*/

function get_url( $url,$timeout = 5 )
    {
        $url = str_replace( "&amp;", "&", urldecode(trim($url)) );
        $ch = curl_init();
        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1" );
        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url );
        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true );
        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "" );
        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true );
        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false );    # required for https urls
        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout );
        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout );
        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 10 );
        $content = curl_exec( $ch );
        //$response = curl_getinfo( $ch ); 
        curl_close ( $ch );
        return $content;
    }

Answer 4

For docx documents, I suggest use of docx2txt tool (available at least on Debian/Ubuntu):

docx2txt < your_file.docx

README explain how to integrate it with vim. Add to your .vimrc:

" use docx2txt.pl to allow VIm to view the text content of a .docx file directly.
autocmd BufReadPre *.docx set ro
autocmd BufReadPost *.docx %!docx2txt

(it also explain how to integrate with emacs).

For hackers, this tool is written in perl.

Answer 5

You can use PHPOffice to read docx content in PHP.

    $content = '';
    $phpWord = \PhpOffice\PhpWord\IOFactory::load($r->file);

    foreach($phpWord->getSections() as $section) {
        foreach($section->getElements() as $element) {
            if (method_exists($element, 'getElements')) {
                foreach($element->getElements() as $childElement) {
                    if (method_exists($childElement, 'getText')) {
                        $content .= $childElement->getText() . ' ';
                    }
                    else if (method_exists($childElement, 'getContent')) {
                        $content .= $childElement->getContent() . ' ';
                    }
                }
            }
            else if (method_exists($element, 'getText')) {
                $content .= $element->getText() . ' ';
            }
        }
    }

and then print_r the $content to see the content as string.