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by herman lapre - 8 days ago (2016-02-20)

Need a decoder for multiple formats

+1	The PHP file reader must be able to read PDF, ODT, DOC, DOCX and RTF documents.

• 2 Clarification requests

• 2. by Christian Vigh - Yesterday (2016-02-26) Reply

  Please clarify your demand : which data do you expect from the PDF/ODT/DOC/DOCX and RTF document reader ? do you want to manipulate document elements after decoding ? do you want to be able to perform modifications after decoding ? or do you simply want to display the document contents on a web page ?

• 3. by Manuel Lemos - Yesterday (2016-02-27) in reply to comment 2 by Christian Vigh Comment

  According to the request tags he wants a file viewer for those formats. So I suppose something that converts those formats to images will be helpful.

  It seems that OpenOffice/LibreOffice can be used for that purpose. the soffice program has options that can start the program opening a given file and convert the file to some other format, like Web pages with pictures, and then it exits without opening the GUI.

  So it can run from the console using the options --headless and --convert-to .

• 4. by Christian Vigh - Yesterday (2016-02-27) in reply to comment 3 by Manuel Lemos Comment

  I have had some experience with OpenOffice/LibreOffice for converting .DOC/.DOCX to .PDF documents. I have encountered some formatting issues, especially with tables but in general it works well.

  In addition, the unoconv script provides a command-line interface for doing the conversion.

  However, as far as I can remember, I requires the openoffice daemon to be up and running.

  I don't know if this could address Herman's needs ?

• 5. by Manuel Lemos - 17 hours ago (2016-02-27) in reply to comment 4 by Christian Vigh Comment

  You do not need to have the OpenOffice daemon running. You can just start OppeOffice on demand to make the format conversion using the soffice command with the options mentioned above. So you do not need the unoconv script as well.

  Starting OpenOffice as a daemon has the advantage of keeping OpenOffice running in memory, just in case you need to convert many documents without delay. In that case you would use a script like unoconv to communicate with the daemon.

• 1. by Manuel Lemos - Yesterday (2016-02-26) Reply

  There are packages that can render some of those formats as images that you can display on a Web page.

  There are not packages for all those formats but some of them could be added later using external programs to render the files as images.

  That could be a innovative solution.

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