# Convert MsWord document (\*.doc) to text

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**Created:** [January 13, 2006, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/convert-msword-document-doc-to-text/175348 "2006-01-13T16:00:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/convert-msword-document-doc-to-text/175348/1 "2006-01-13T16:00:48Z")

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is there any way in PHP or ASP in which I can convert a Microsoft Word document into plain text?

this would later be saved in a database row so that i can do a fulltext search with mySQL. i don’t need the formatting or images… the user can get that by opening the link to the original doc file.

(i’d like to have the user just input the doc file + the user already has an archive of docs which would need to be added to this database)