title: Reading DOC file in php
body: <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="https://i.stack.imgur.com/dTnM9.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>