File Uploading and Then reading the file

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Hi Everybody,
I am having some problems in uploading .doc and .odt files.I want to upload the above stated extensions and then also read the uploaded file so that i can display the contents of the file in proper format.so if anubody can help me in solving this problem,I will be gratefull to him/her.
Thanx

[eluser]LuckyFella73[/eluser]
Could you also imagine to implement a rich-text-editor to format
your texts (something like "tiny mce" or equivalent) ? It's pretty
unusual (at least I never heard of it) to manage webcontents with
.doc files. Should be quite hard to extract the right data out of
the .doc file. But maybe someone here has a class for doing the stuff ..

[eluser]xwero[/eluser]
After a quick search on phpclasses.org i selected these libraries :

PHP MS Word
OpenOffice 2 HTML

[eluser]LuckyFella73[/eluser]
I doubt that you will have much fun trying to display
your word-docs als HTML unless you don't mind to
have a clean and serious looking website. Reading the
detailed descriptions for these classes you let you
know that you won't have much controll over formating
your elements.

Class: OpenOffice 2 HTML:

Code:

It can convert documents with images simple text styles. It can also convert tables but without style support.

Class: PHP MS Wordand:
Seems to manipulate/ edit word-docs but don't create
HTML from.

[eluser]xwero[/eluser]
Oops, i should read descriptions more carefully

Converting them to html was the first thing i was thinking when i read the topic start. I don't think it's a good idea to integrate the uploaded document with the sitedesign because then you will loose the mark up of the document so converted document should be shown in a new window.

But i'm wondering if converting the documents to pdfs could be an option. Most people have a browser plugin that opens the pdf in their brower for a preview.