yucatan Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 can i search for text in a pdf file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 can i search for text in a pdf file?Yes. Blog - Seriously epic web hosting - Twitter - GitHub - Cachet HQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yucatan Posted November 29, 2010 Author Share Posted November 29, 2010 Yes.ahh thats great.... how.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 ahh thats great.... how....Using a COM object.I believe there is no way of using standard Win32 functions to read PDF documents. Blog - Seriously epic web hosting - Twitter - GitHub - Cachet HQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
water Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 (edited) ahh thats great.... how....It depends.Have you ever opened a PDF file with a text editor and tried to search for some of the displayed text?I think you can't just read the file and search for the text.But there are open source libraries available that let you do what you want. Or use one of the available tools to extract the text to a file and then process this file. Edited November 29, 2010 by water My UDFs and Tutorials: Spoiler UDFs:Active Directory (NEW 2022-02-19 - Version 1.6.1.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiExcelChart (2017-07-21 - Version 0.4.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Example ScriptsOutlookEX (2021-11-16 - Version 1.7.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiOutlookEX_GUI (2021-04-13 - Version 1.4.0.0) - DownloadOutlook Tools (2019-07-22 - Version 0.6.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - WikiPowerPoint (2021-08-31 - Version 1.5.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiTask Scheduler (NEW 2022-07-28 - Version 1.6.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Wiki Standard UDFs:Excel - Example Scripts - WikiWord - Wiki Tutorials:ADO - WikiWebDriver - Wiki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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