diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index af9754cb..fce2bdac 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ This release marked the change of PHPWord license from LGPL 2.1 to LGPL 3; new r
 - ODT Writer: Enable section and column - @ivanlanin
 - PDF Writer: Add TCPDF and mPDF as optional PDF renderer library - @ivanlanin
 - ODT Writer: Enable title element and custom document properties - @ivanlanin
+- ODT Reader: Ability to read standard and custom document properties - @ivanlanin
 
 ### Bugfixes
 
diff --git a/samples/resources/Sample_24_ReadODText.odt b/samples/resources/Sample_24_ReadODText.odt
index a8e1b7a2..d37c4e66 100644
Binary files a/samples/resources/Sample_24_ReadODText.odt and b/samples/resources/Sample_24_ReadODText.odt differ
diff --git a/src/PhpWord/Reader/ODText.php b/src/PhpWord/Reader/ODText.php
index 911295d9..19efdc51 100644
--- a/src/PhpWord/Reader/ODText.php
+++ b/src/PhpWord/Reader/ODText.php
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ class ODText extends AbstractReader implements ReaderInterface
 
         $readerParts = array(
             'content.xml' => 'Content',
+            'meta.xml' => 'Meta',
         );
 
         foreach ($readerParts as $xmlFile => $partName) {
diff --git a/src/PhpWord/Reader/ODText/Content.php b/src/PhpWord/Reader/ODText/Content.php
index d2195679..12b39f74 100644
--- a/src/PhpWord/Reader/ODText/Content.php
+++ b/src/PhpWord/Reader/ODText/Content.php
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ use PhpOffice\PhpWord\Shared\XMLReader;
 
 /**
  * Content reader
+ *
+ * @since 0.10.0
  */
 class Content extends AbstractPart
 {
diff --git a/src/PhpWord/Reader/ODText/Meta.php b/src/PhpWord/Reader/ODText/Meta.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f7f4542d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/PhpWord/Reader/ODText/Meta.php
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * This file is part of PHPWord - A pure PHP library for reading and writing
+ * word processing documents.
+ *
+ * PHPWord is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser
+ * General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * For the full copyright and license information, please read the LICENSE
+ * file that was distributed with this source code. For the full list of
+ * contributors, visit https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord/contributors.
+ *
+ * @link        https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord
+ * @copyright   2010-2014 PHPWord contributors
+ * @license     http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt LGPL version 3
+ */
+
+namespace PhpOffice\PhpWord\Reader\ODText;
+
+use PhpOffice\PhpWord\PhpWord;
+use PhpOffice\PhpWord\Shared\XMLReader;
+
+/**
+ * Meta reader
+ *
+ * @since 0.11.0
+ */
+class Meta extends AbstractPart
+{
+    /**
+     * Read meta.xml
+     *
+     * @param \PhpOffice\PhpWord\PhpWord $phpWord
+     * @todo Process property type
+     */
+    public function read(PhpWord &$phpWord)
+    {
+        $xmlReader = new XMLReader();
+        $xmlReader->getDomFromZip($this->docFile, $this->xmlFile);
+        $docProps = $phpWord->getDocumentProperties();
+
+        $metaNode = $xmlReader->getElement('office:meta');
+
+        // Standard properties
+        $properties = array(
+            'title'          => 'dc:title',
+            'subject'        => 'dc:subject',
+            'description'    => 'dc:description',
+            'keywords'       => 'meta:keyword',
+            'creator'        => 'meta:initial-creator',
+            'lastModifiedBy' => 'dc:creator',
+            // 'created'        => 'meta:creation-date',
+            // 'modified'       => 'dc:date',
+        );
+        foreach ($properties as $property => $path) {
+            $method = "set{$property}";
+            $propertyNode = $xmlReader->getElement($path, $metaNode);
+            if ($propertyNode !== null && method_exists($docProps, $method)) {
+                $docProps->$method($propertyNode->nodeValue);
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Custom properties
+        $propertyNodes = $xmlReader->getElements('meta:user-defined', $metaNode);
+        foreach ($propertyNodes as $propertyNode) {
+            $property = $xmlReader->getAttribute('meta:name', $propertyNode);
+
+            // Set category, company, and manager property
+            if (in_array($property, array('Category', 'Company', 'Manager'))) {
+                $method = "set{$property}";
+                $docProps->$method($propertyNode->nodeValue);
+
+            // Set other custom properties
+            } else {
+                $docProps->setCustomProperty($property, $propertyNode->nodeValue);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/PhpWord/Writer/ODText/Part/Meta.php b/src/PhpWord/Writer/ODText/Part/Meta.php
index 8c6ad3a9..50a38047 100644
--- a/src/PhpWord/Writer/ODText/Part/Meta.php
+++ b/src/PhpWord/Writer/ODText/Part/Meta.php
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ use PhpOffice\PhpWord\Shared\XMLWriter;
 
 /**
  * ODText meta part writer: meta.xml
+ *
+ * @since 0.11.0
  */
 class Meta extends AbstractPart
 {
@@ -47,19 +49,19 @@ class Meta extends AbstractPart
         $xmlWriter->startElement('office:meta');
 
         // Core properties
+        $xmlWriter->writeElement('dc:title', $docProps->getTitle());
+        $xmlWriter->writeElement('dc:subject', $docProps->getSubject());
+        $xmlWriter->writeElement('dc:description', $docProps->getDescription());
         $xmlWriter->writeElement('dc:creator', $docProps->getLastModifiedBy());
         $xmlWriter->writeElement('dc:date', gmdate('Y-m-d\TH:i:s.000', $docProps->getModified()));
-        $xmlWriter->writeElement('dc:description', $docProps->getDescription());
-        $xmlWriter->writeElement('dc:subject', $docProps->getSubject());
-        $xmlWriter->writeElement('dc:title', $docProps->getTitle());
 
         // Extended properties
         $xmlWriter->writeElement('meta:generator', 'PHPWord');
-        $xmlWriter->writeElement('meta:creation-date', gmdate('Y-m-d\TH:i:s.000', $docProps->getCreated()));
         $xmlWriter->writeElement('meta:initial-creator', $docProps->getCreator());
+        $xmlWriter->writeElement('meta:creation-date', gmdate('Y-m-d\TH:i:s.000', $docProps->getCreated()));
         $xmlWriter->writeElement('meta:keyword', $docProps->getKeywords());
 
-        // Category, company, and manager should be put in meta namespace
+        // Category, company, and manager are put in meta namespace
         $properties = array('Category', 'Company', 'Manager');
         foreach ($properties as $property) {
             $method = "get{$property}";
@@ -87,12 +89,17 @@ class Meta extends AbstractPart
      * @param \PhpOffice\PhpWord\Shared\XMLWriter $xmlWriter
      * @param string $property
      * @param string $value
-     * @param string $type
+     * @param string $type string (default/null)
+     *
+     * @todo Handle other `$type`: double|date|dateTime|duration|boolean
      */
     private function writeCustomProperty(XMLWriter $xmlWriter, $property, $value, $type = null)
     {
         $xmlWriter->startElement('meta:user-defined');
         $xmlWriter->writeAttribute('meta:name', $property);
+        if ($type !== null) {
+            $xmlWriter->writeAttribute('meta:value-type', $type);
+        }
         $xmlWriter->writeRaw($value);
         $xmlWriter->endElement(); // meta:user-defined
     }