Reading PDF Files

XPDF package includes “pdftotext.” You have to install XPDF/pdftotext then run the following PHP statement to get the PDF text:

$txtcontent = exec('/usr/local/bin/pdftotext svnlabs.pdf -');

Reading DOC Files

This package is called Antiword. Here’s the PHP code to grab the Word DOC content:

$txtcontent = exec('/usr/local/bin/antiword svnlabs.doc');