Reading PDf and DOC files ....

Hi ! Is there any way to read pdf and odc files in php ? Actually my user is going to upload the files on webserver. I just want to extract the data from those files and feed into the mysql db. is there any way out to save the formatting while extracting data?

Thanks in advance

 

oh. im really interested in this as well

 

i remember seen some PHP class about it but i didnt know how to get it to work

 

For PDF , there is in-built support for PDF files, for MS-Word, I thinking of using WordML. Lets see if anyone other has some solution for it.

 

For PDF, try FPDF libray and for word, I am still looking for some thing which can read MS-Word document. I am successful in reading Open Office documents till now