Are there any specific PHP libraries or functions that can extract text from a Word document for display in a textarea?

To extract text from a Word document for display in a textarea using PHP, you can utilize the PHPWord library. This library allows you to read and extract text content from Word documents. You can then display this extracted text in a textarea on your webpage. 

require_once 'PHPWord.php';

$phpWord = new \PhpOffice\PhpWord\PhpWord();
$phpWord = \PhpOffice\PhpWord\IOFactory::load('example.docx');

$text = '';
foreach ($phpWord->getSections() as $section) {
    foreach ($section->getElements() as $element) {
        if ($element instanceof \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Element\TextRun) {
            $text .= $element->getText();
        }
    }
}

echo '<textarea>' . $text . '</textarea>';

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