alirashidnahal/polytext

Framework-agnostic PHP library for parsing, reading, and writing text across many file formats.

v1.0.0 2026-07-10 20:40 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.3
• ext-dom: *
• ext-fileinfo: *
• ext-json: *
• ext-mbstring: *
• ext-zip: *
• dompdf/dompdf: ^3.1
• league/csv: ^9.22
• phpoffice/phppresentation: ^1.1
• phpoffice/phpspreadsheet: ^4.0
• phpoffice/phpword: ^1.3
• smalot/pdfparser: ^2.11
• symfony/yaml: ^7.2|^8.0

Requires (Dev)

• illuminate/support: ^13.0
• laravel/pint: ^1.29
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2.1
• phpstan/phpstan-phpunit: ^2.0
• phpunit/phpunit: ^12.0

Suggests

• illuminate/support: Required for the optional Laravel bridge (^13.0).

MIT

• Ali Rashidnahal

• php
• file
• xlsx
• parser
• pdf
• docx
• subtitle
• polytext

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-07-10 20:42 UTC

README

Framework-agnostic PHP library for parsing, reading, and writing text across many file formats.

Requirements

• PHP 8.3+
• Extensions: dom, fileinfo, json, mbstring, zip

Installation

composer require alirashidnahal/polytext

Quick Start

use Alirashidnahal\Polytext\Polytext;

$polytext = new Polytext();
$document = $polytext->open('report.docx');

foreach ($document->nodes() as $node) {
    $node->setText(strtoupper($node->text()));
}

$document->save('report-modified.docx');

Supported Formats

Category	Extensions
Text	txt, text, log, md, markdown
Subtitles	srt, vtt, ass, ssa, sub
Web	html, htm, xml
Data	json, csv, yaml, yml
Office	docx, odt, rtf, xlsx, xls, ods, pptx, ppt
PDF	pdf

Laravel

Auto-discovery registers PolytextServiceProvider and the Polytext facade.

use Alirashidnahal\Polytext\Laravel\Facades\Polytext;

$document = Polytext::open(storage_path('app/file.docx'));

Publish config:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=polytext-config

Development

composer install
composer test
composer analyse
composer format

License

MIT © Ali Rashidnahal