How can PHP be used to read and display text from Word and PDF documents stored in a MySQL database?

To read and display text from Word and PDF documents stored in a MySQL database using PHP, you can use libraries like PHPWord for Word documents and TCPDF for PDF documents. You would need to retrieve the document from the database, convert it to text using the appropriate library, and then display the text on your webpage. 

// Assume $document contains the binary data of the document retrieved from the database

// For Word documents
require_once 'PHPWord.php';
$phpWord = new PHPWord();
$phpWord->load($document);
$documentText = $phpWord->get('Text');

// For PDF documents
require_once 'tcpdf_include.php';
$pdf = new TCPDF();
$pdf->setSourceFile($document);
$page = $pdf->importPage(1);
$text = $pdf->getText($page);

// Display the text on the webpage
echo $documentText; // For Word documents
echo $text; // For PDF documents

Keywords

PHP MySQL Word document PDF document text extraction

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