Convert MS Word / Rtf / ... To Plain Text
i'm looking for standalone libraries that convert documents to plain text so i can let people edit the text in a textarea after uploading. One thing to notice is that i can not use COM because i can't configure the webserver.
Does anyone has interesting classes that are able to do this. I found a PHP class for ms word documents at http://obninsk.name/obninsk_doc/ but that doesn't work at all for my word documents.
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