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[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing) 4. / 5. rembish/text-at-any-cost ActiveLibrary[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing) rembish/text-at-any-cost ======================== Extract plain text from common document formats: DOC, PDF, PPT, RTF, DOCX, ODT, RAR v1.0.0(3mo ago)70239BSD-3-ClausePHPPHP ^8.3 Since Feb 17Pushed 3mo ago16 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/rembish/TextAtAnyCost)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/rembish/text-at-any-cost)[ RSS](/packages/rembish-text-at-any-cost/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 1mo ago READMEChangelogDependencies (3)Versions (2)Used By (0) TextAtAnyCost ============= [](#textatanycost) Extract plain text from common document formats — no external programs or PECL extensions required. Supported formats ----------------- [](#supported-formats) FormatExtensionNotesMicrosoft Word 97–2003`.doc`CFB/WCBFF, ANSI and UnicodeMicrosoft PowerPoint 97–2003`.ppt`CFB/WCBFFAdobe PDF`.pdf`FlateDecode, ASCII-85, ASCII-Hex, ToUnicode CMapsRich Text Format`.rtf`Stack-based parser, Mac Roman + Windows-1251Word 2007+ (Open XML)`.docx`ZIP + XMLOpenDocument Text`.odt`ZIP + XMLRAR archives (read list)`.rar`RAR 4.x, no PECL requiredRAR archives (write/store)`.rar`Store method onlyRequirements ------------ [](#requirements) - PHP **8.3** or later - Extensions: `mbstring`, `zlib`, `dom`, `zip` (all standard in PHP 8) Installation ------------ [](#installation) ### Via Composer (recommended) [](#via-composer-recommended) ``` composer require rembish/text-at-any-cost ``` ### Directly from GitHub [](#directly-from-github) ``` composer require rembish/text-at-any-cost:dev-master ``` > **Packagist**: submit your GitHub URL at [packagist.org](https://packagist.org/packages/submit)once to enable tagged releases (`composer require rembish/text-at-any-cost:^1.0`). Usage ----- [](#usage) ### Unified facade (auto-detects by extension) [](#unified-facade-auto-detects-by-extension) ``` use TextAtAnyCost\TextExtractor; $text = TextExtractor::fromFile('/path/to/document.docx'); ``` ### Individual parsers [](#individual-parsers) ``` use TextAtAnyCost\Parser\DocParser; use TextAtAnyCost\Parser\PdfParser; use TextAtAnyCost\Parser\PptParser; use TextAtAnyCost\Parser\RtfParser; use TextAtAnyCost\Parser\ZippedXmlParser; $text = (new DocParser())->extractText('report.doc'); $text = (new PdfParser())->extractText('report.pdf'); $text = (new PptParser())->extractText('slides.ppt'); $text = (new RtfParser())->extractText('memo.rtf'); $text = (new ZippedXmlParser())->extractDocx('report.docx'); $text = (new ZippedXmlParser())->extractOdt('report.odt'); ``` ### RTF from a string [](#rtf-from-a-string) ``` use TextAtAnyCost\Parser\RtfParser; $text = (new RtfParser())->parseString($rtfString); ``` ### RAR archives [](#rar-archives) ``` use TextAtAnyCost\Archive\RarReader; use TextAtAnyCost\Archive\RarWriter; // List files $reader = new RarReader(); $files = $reader->getFileList('archive.rar'); $tree = $reader->getFileTree('archive.rar'); // Create a stored (no-compression) archive $writer = new RarWriter(); $writer->create('output.rar'); $writer->addDirectory('docs/reports'); $writer->addFile('/var/www/report.pdf', 'docs/reports'); $writer->close(); ``` ### Procedural wrappers (backward-compatible) [](#procedural-wrappers-backward-compatible) Each parser file still exports a procedural function for drop-in compatibility: ``` require 'vendor/autoload.php'; $text = doc2text('report.doc'); $text = pdf2text('report.pdf'); $text = ppt2text('slides.ppt'); $text = rtf2text('memo.rtf'); $text = docx2text('report.docx'); $text = odt2text('report.odt'); ``` Error handling -------------- [](#error-handling) All parsers throw `TextAtAnyCost\Exception\ParseException` (extends `RuntimeException`) on structural or I/O errors. `TextExtractor::fromFile()` additionally throws `\InvalidArgumentException` for unsupported extensions. ``` use TextAtAnyCost\Exception\ParseException; use TextAtAnyCost\TextExtractor; try { $text = TextExtractor::fromFile($path); } catch (ParseException $e) { // file unreadable or format invalid } catch (\InvalidArgumentException $e) { // extension not supported } ``` Development ----------- [](#development) All development tasks run inside Docker — no local PHP installation required. ``` make install # install Composer dependencies make test # run PHPUnit test suite make stan # PHPStan static analysis (level 8) make cs # check code style (PHP-CS-Fixer, dry-run) make cs-fix # apply code-style fixes make lint # PHP syntax check on all files make test-coverage # HTML coverage report in coverage/ make shell # interactive shell in the container ``` Architecture ------------ [](#architecture) ``` src/ ├── Exception/ │ └── ParseException.php ├── Parser/ │ ├── CfbParser.php # Abstract base: Windows Compound Binary File │ ├── DocParser.php # .doc (extends CfbParser) │ ├── PptParser.php # .ppt (extends CfbParser) │ ├── PdfParser.php # .pdf │ ├── RtfParser.php # .rtf │ └── ZippedXmlParser.php # .docx / .odt ├── Archive/ │ ├── RarReader.php # RAR 4.x file listing │ └── RarWriter.php # RAR store-mode archive creation └── TextExtractor.php # Unified facade ``` Changelog / Bug fixes --------------------- [](#changelog--bug-fixes) The following bugs from the original 2009 codebase were fixed during modernisation: FileBug`stored-rar.php``getDateTime()`: inverted null-check always returned the current time, ignoring the provided timestamp`stored-rar.php``getBytes()`: `strlen(0)` returns 1, not 0 — header size was off by one for zero-length fields`pdf.php`Single-quoted `'\n'`, `'\r'` etc. are literal two-character strings in PHP — text output contained backslash-n instead of actual newlines`pdf.php``FILE_BINARY` constant does not exist in PHP; removed (the flag was silently ignored)`cfb.php`Dead code after `continue` including a debug `echo "@"` statement that would corrupt output`cfb.php``while(...["type"] == 0) array_pop()` could loop forever on an empty array (PR #7)`doc.php``html_entity_decode("&#x...;")` replaced with `mb_chr()` for correct multi-byte output (PR #9)`zipped-xml.php``LIBXML_XINCLUDE` removed — it allowed XML `` to read arbitrary local files (XXE)`zipped-xml.php`Lossy `iconv("utf-8", "windows-1250")` conversion removed; output is now UTF-8 throughout`rtf.php`Stack underflow when `j < 0` or stack entry missing (PR #4)License ------- [](#license) BSD 3-Clause — see [LICENSE](LICENSE). ### Health Score 44 — FairBetter than 92% of packages Maintenance82 Actively maintained with recent releases Popularity20 Limited adoption so far Community19 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity49 Maturing project, gaining track record Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 87.5% of commits — single point of failure How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. 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