Counting number of words in ".txt",".doc", and ".pdf" files.

[jacob_kochi]

SUB: Counting number of words in ".txt",".doc", and ".pdf" files.

I need advice on how to count number of words in ".pdf" and ".doc" files.

For ".txt" files I made is easily buy two line code.

$string = preg_split ("/[\s\n]+/", $string);
echo count($string);

Since my site is on linux machine, i cannot use com object. Please advice on how i can count number of words in ".doc" and ".pdf" files.

PLease advice on how i can get only content of a ".doc" and ".pdf" .

Thanks in advance.

Jacob

[tekky]

this may or may not prove useful to you, but doing a quick search on google turned up this site...

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_simple_form.html

rather cool, and to get pertinent data out of pdf or doc files, you will need to use reg expressions to clean out the format codes from the PDF/DOC file formats...