From: Dan Nelson
Date: December 2 2003 8:50pm
Subject: Re: [OT] Importing content from Word
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In the last episode (Dec 02), Matt MacLeod said:
> I'm building a recruitment website using PHP and mySQL and would like
> to be able to search CVs/resumes that people have uploaded to the
> server. Most people have them in Word format - what I'd like to be
> able to do is copy the text of the document and insert it into a
> mysql database so that it can be searched by the site administrators.
> 
> There would also be an original copy of the word doc uploaded to the
> server.

wvware is great for converting Word documents into other formats.  Run
wvText to generate plaintext output. 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/wvware

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@stripped