Como ler .doc usando PHP

Aqui está uma função para ler o conteúdo de um arquivo .doc usando PHP .
Nota : não funciona com .docx

<?php
function readWord($filename) {
if(file_exists($filename))
{
if(($fh = fopen($filename, 'r')) !== false )
{
$headers
= fread($fh, 0xA00);

// 1 = (ord(n)*1) ; Document has from 0 to 255 characters
$n1
= ( ord($headers[0x21C]) - 1 );

// 1 = ((ord(n)-8)*256) ; Document has from 256 to 63743 characters
$n2
= ( ( ord($headers[0x21D]) - 8 ) * 256 );

// 1 = ((ord(n)*256)*256) ; Document has from 63744 to 16775423 characters
$n3
= ( ( ord($headers[0x21E]) * 256 ) * 256 );

// 1 = (((ord(n)*256)*256)*256) ; Document has from 16775424 to 4294965504 characters
$n4
= ( ( ( ord($headers[0x21F]) * 256 ) * 256 ) * 256 );

// Total length of text in the document
$textLength
= ($n1 + $n2 + $n3 + $n4);

$extracted_plaintext
= fread($fh, $textLength);

// if you want to see your paragraphs in a new line, do this
// return nl2br($extracted_plaintext);
return $extracted_plaintext;
} else {
return false;
}
} else {
return false;
}
}
?>

Fonte: Mukund Topiwala