Parsing Binary Data!!!

[groberts23]

Hello-

I'm having ALOT of trouble. I inherited a PERL mod that takes a Word Document, uploads it to the web server, converts it to a .txt document, then splits the .txt into 4kb chunks, which it then plops into an Oracle database. All is well until there are images in the original Word doc. When this occurs, I have binary garbage in my database. IS there someway in PHP or PERL to strip this binary garbage from the text prior to being entered into the database?

Any help is appreciated. I've searched high and low for some help. I'm pretty weak in PERL.

Thanks!