Full text searching MSWord files

[diegovic]

Hi,
I have a project that require to full text search some user uploaded documents on a Linux PHP based server.
I basically need to open the word (.doc) files and full text search them, than simply allow the user to retrieve them.

I know on win based servers you can use the COM module to read word file, my question is if anyone has figured out how to do the same on Linux.

Searching the web I found this library, but have no clue on how could it perform http://www.badblue.com/helpphpo.htm#SOWord

Has some of you had any experience with it or a similar library?

Thanks in advance for your help
Diego

[stolzyboy]

haven't used it in a long time, but previously used http://www.htdig.org/

it'll do word files (with an external file) but within htdig.. and it'll do pdf files as well

have fun, indexing/searching files is fun stuff 😛

[etully]

I like http://www.swish-e.org