function parsePPT($filename) { // This approach uses detection of the string "chr(0f).Hex_value.chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00)" to find text strings, which are then terminated by another NUL chr(0x00). [1] Get text between delimiters [2] $fileHandle = fopen($filename, "r"); $line = fread($fileHandle, filesize($filename)); $lines = explode(chr(0x0f),$line); $outtext = ''; foreach($lines as $thisline) { if (strpos($thisline, chr(0x00).chr(0x00).chr(0x00)) == 1) { $text_line = substr($thisline, 4); $end_pos = strpos($text_line, chr(0x00)); $text_line = substr($text_line, 0, $end_pos); $text_line = preg_replace("/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s\,\.\-\n\r\t@\/\_\(\)]/"," ",$text_line); if (strlen($text_line) > 1) { $outtext.= substr($text_line, 0, $end_pos)."\n"; } } } return $outtext;}$filename = "test_pptk.ppt";$ppt_string = parsePPT($filename);