read MS Office properties using AutoIT

[caner]

i'm trying to write a script to read MS Office properties (Author,Title,Last Saved By etc) from existing MS Office files. i dont create a word document, i use existing one. i dont want to open doc files with application but only read.

official example:

#include <Word.au3>

$oWordApp = _WordCreate(@ScriptDir & "\Test.doc")

$oDoc = _WordDocGetCollection($oWordApp, 0)

ConsoleWrite("Title - " & _WordDocPropertyGet($oDoc, "Title") & @CRLF)

ConsoleWrite("Subject - " & _WordDocPropertyGet($oDoc, "Subject") & @CRLF)

ConsoleWrite("Author - " & _WordDocPropertyGet($oDoc, "Author") & @CRLF)

[water]

And the question is?

[caner]

how can i do it?

[water]

But the script you posted does exactly what you need, doesn't it?

[caner]

i dont want to create Word application. i want only use existing documents.

[caner]

and also create a gui listbox like this photo. In fact i created an application using C# with DSOFile.dll but it doesnt work all Windows. So i want to create a code with AutoIt.

[water]

Or try this, function _File_Ext_PropertiesGet.

[caner]

broken link!!!

Server Error in '/' Application.

[caner]

ok i've downloaded it.

[caner]

it contains only File system metadata. i need MS Office metadata.

[water]

To get MS Office metadata you have to open the file and get the data like you did in your first post.

[caner]

but the code creates blank word document!

[caner]

or opens exist document with Word. i dont want to open document actually.

[water]

Then open Word invisible and quit when finished.

#include <Word.au3>
$oWordApp = _WordCreate(@ScriptDir &amp; "\Test.doc", 0, 0)
$oDoc = _WordDocGetCollection($oWordApp, 0)
ConsoleWrite("Title - " & _WordDocPropertyGet($oDoc, "Title") & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite("Subject - " & _WordDocPropertyGet($oDoc, "Subject") & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite("Author - " & _WordDocPropertyGet($oDoc, "Author") & @CRLF)
_WordQuit($oWordApp, 0)

[water]

i dont want to open document actually.

You have to open the document - that's the only way I know to access the properties.

[caner]

ok but it runs slowly... i'll try it again using C#..

thank you.

[water]

If you want to extract the metadata from many word documents you could extract the part where the object is created from _WordCreate, process each document in a loop and close each document but leaving word running. At the end close Word.

Can't test at the moment because my Ubuntu PC doesn't understand MS Word