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get word document count and number of slides count in PPT

Is it possible to get the number of pages in word document or number of slides in a ppt?

I have done a lot of research on it and I am desperately looking for solution. I saw that it is very difficult to get it done in PHP on linux server.

I would be ok with Java also, but is it possible. I checked the apache POI library, but would it work for both ppt, pptx, doc and docx?

I am rigorously searching for some solution but I am unable to get one. Any help would be really really appreciated.

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Answer

To get meta data properties of doc, docx, ppt and pptx like number of pages, number of slides I followed the following process and it worked liked a charm. Hope it helps someone:

  1. Download and configure Apache Tika

  2. Once its done you could try executing the following commands, to get all the meta data about your file:

java -jar tika-app-1.5.jar -m test.docx
java -jar tika-app-1.5.jar -m test.doc
java -jar tika-app-1.5.jar -m test.pptx
java -jar tika-app-1.5.jar -m test.ppt

Once tested you can execute these commands in a PHP script. Thanks.

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