The PHPWordLib is a piece of PHP software which is intended to convert MS Word (.DOC) and Rich Text Format (.RTF or .DOC) files to plain text. The PHP library is self contained and does not require absolutelly anything external in order to run. The library has two simple functions to use - LoadFile and GetPlainText. The library does all necessary checking internally and its functions will always return FALSE if something seems to be wrong with the input file.