PHP - Get a word count from an uploaded Microsoft Word document

.doc, ms-word, php, upload

Solution

You will need to:

Distinguish the file type

$file_name = $_FILES['image']['name'];
$file_extn = end(explode(".", strtolower($_FILES['image']['name'])));

if($file_extn == "doc" || $file_extn == "docx"){
    docx2text();
}elseif($file_extn == "rtf"){
    rtf2text();
}

Convert the document to text

https://stackoverflow.com/a/7371315/2512934 for doc or docx http://webcheatsheet.com/php/reading_the_clean_text_from_rtf.php for rtf

Count the words http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-word-count.php

Problem

I am trying to grab a word count from an uploaded word doc `(.doc, .docx, .rtf)` but it always carries through the annoying Word formatting. Anybody tackled this issue before and know how to solve it? Thanks :)

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