Detecting MIME types

[Anon]

Hello-

I have a PERL utility that is taking an MS Word document, uploading it to the web server, converting it to .txt in 4kb increments and uploading these records to an Oracle database so the record is searchable. All is well until there is an image embedded in the Word document. At this point the PERL utility simply throws gibberish into the record, and, consequently, there is gibberish in my database. Can I use perl or PHP to search through the Word document for a .gif or *.jpg MIME type, skip over it, and resume with the normal text?

Thanks.