Reading DOC file in php
<p>I'm trying to read <code>.doc .docx</code> file in php. All is working fine. But at last line I'm getting awful characters. Please help me.
Here is code which is developed by someone.</p>

<pre><code>    function parseWord($userDoc) 
{
    $fileHandle = fopen($userDoc, "r");
    $line = @fread($fileHandle, filesize($userDoc));   
    $lines = explode(chr(0x0D),$line);
    $outtext = "";
    foreach($lines as $thisline)
      {
        $pos = strpos($thisline, chr(0x00));
        if (($pos !== FALSE)||(strlen($thisline)==0))
          {
          } else {
            $outtext .= $thisline." ";
          }
      }
     $outtext = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s\,\.\-\n\r\t@\/\_\(\)]/","",$outtext);
    return $outtext;
} 

$userDoc = "k.doc";
</code></pre>

<p>Here is screenshot. 
<img src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/dTnM9.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
