DOCX2TXT

LAYOUT & GENERAL

WORD CONTENT

TEMPLATES

FORMAT CONVERSION

DOCXPATH

DOCXUTILITIES

DOCXPATHUTILITIES

removeSection

PDFUTILITIES

DOCXCUSTOMIZER

customizeWordContent

PERFORMANCE

stream

ENCRYPT

encryptPDF

DOCX2TXT

BASIC / ADVANCED / PREMIUM

Extracts the text contents from a Word document.

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

Parameters

source

The path to the DOCX from which you want to extract the text.

target

The path to the txt destination file.

options

The possible 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 endnotes.
chart	int	Possible values are: '0': charts are ignored. '1': charts are parsed as txt lists. '2': charts are parsed as tables (tabbed paragraphs).

Return values

Void.

Code samples

Example #1

require_once 'classes/CreateDocx.php';

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

The resulting Word document looks like: