Extracts the text contents from a Word document

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DOCX2TXT

Extracts the text contents from a Word document.

PRO, PRO+ and CORPORATE PHPDocX >= 2.6

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Description

public DOCX2TXT (string $source, string $target [, array $options])

This method allows to extract the text from a docx document with a few styling options:

indent lists,
tables as tabbed text,
footnotes and endnotes,
etcetera.

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Parameters

source

The path to the docx from which we want to extract the text.

target

The path to the txt destination file.

options

The posible keys and values are:

key	Type	Description
table	bool	True (default) if you want to parse tables as tabbed paragraps.
list	bool	True (default) if you want to parse lists as txt lists.
paragraph	bool	True (default) if you want to preserve the paragraph structure.
footnote	bool	True (default) if you want to include the footnotes.
endnote	bool	True (default) if you want to include the footnotes.
chart	int	Posible values are: '0': charts are ignored, '1': charts are parsed as txt lists and '2': charts are parsed as tables (tabbed paragraphs).

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Return values

Void.

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Code samples

Example #1: docx to txt with different styling options


require_once '../../classes/CreateDocx.inc';
$options = array('paragraph' => false, 'list' => false,'table' => false, 'footnote' => false, 'endnote' => false, 'chart' => 0);
CreateDocx::DOCX2TXT('../files/ExampleDoc.docx', '../docx/Document_1.txt', $options);
$options['paragraph'] = true;
CreateDocx::DOCX2TXT('../files/ExampleDoc.docx', '../docx/Document_2.txt', $options);
$options['list'] = true;
CreateDocx::DOCX2TXT('../files/ExampleDoc.docx', '../docx/Document_3.txt', $options);
$options['table'] = true;
CreateDocx::DOCX2TXT('../files/ExampleDoc.docx', '../docx/Document_4.txt', $options);
$options['footnote'] = true;
CreateDocx::DOCX2TXT('../files/ExampleDoc.docx', '../docx/Document_5.txt', $options);
$options['endnote'] = true;
CreateDocx::DOCX2TXT('../files/ExampleDoc.docx', '../docx/Document_6.txt', $options);
$options['chart'] = 1;
CreateDocx::DOCX2TXT('../files/ExampleDoc.docx', '../docx/Document_7.txt', $options);
$options['chart'] = 2;
CreateDocx::DOCX2TXT('../files/ExampleDoc.docx', '../docx/Document_8.txt', $options);