ADDITION: I have found that the closest method of counting lines is by using linux command "antiword" for DOC files, antiword would return a text version of the DOC; while for DOCX using a call that will retreive content from the DOCX and push data through the same text function as antiword.
The problem comes now when you have tables in the file, antiword adds a lot of white spaces.
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I have a script that works out character count within DOCX files:
$zip = new ZipArchive;
$striped_content = '';
$content = '';
if(!$filename || !file_exists($filename)) return false;
$zip = zip_open($filename);
if (!$zip || is_numeric($zip)) return false;
while ($zip_entry = zip_read($zip)) {
if (zip_entry_open($zip, $zip_entry) == FALSE) continue;
if (zip_entry_name($zip_entry) != "word/document.xml") continue;
$content .= zip_entry_read($zip_entry, zip_entry_filesize($zip_entry));
zip_entry_close($zip_entry);
}// end while
zip_close($zip_entry);
$content = str_replace('</w:r></w:p></w:tc><w:tc>', " ", $content);
$content = str_replace('</w:r></w:p>', "\r\n", $content);
$striped_content = trim(strip_tags($content));
If I have doc file I basically convert file to docx using LibreOffice command line and than I run the script above.
The problem is that I am unable to find out how many words file has within "HEADER" and "FOOTER" area. How can this be accomplished?
My server runs: PHP 5.3 LibreOffice CentOS 6.5
I am not sure on what other information I need to supply, thank you for your answers before hand.
p.s.
I have tried converting doc and docx to txt, but in result the "HEADER" and "FOOTER" areas were not kept within txt document
Also, the closest solution that I have found is: https://github.com/nagilum/DOCx
Library breaks up whole docx file and you have header, content and footer in plain text and I can try to workout word count from their. However, libreoffice seem to badly convert files to docx sometimes and a doc file with 1 page may have 2 pages in docx, after convert.
