Extract text from several type of documents

[nihylo]

Hi,

I apologize if my question has already been asked, I searched a lot but I couldn't find a simple way to check the presence of the text "foobar" in PDF, Word or HTML files.

I'm using AutoIt for almost the first time.

Thanks by advance.

[weaponx]

You are going to have a tough time with PDF files. They are encoded in a proprietary format and you will have to find a program that can extract all of the contents to a text file.

[junkew]

For help earching a solution

0. Read topic in AutoIt help on obj/com reference (below function reference)

1. Word: Search for Word.au3 in this forum for AutoIt samples and in Google for word.application you get zillions of examples on wordautomation object

2. HTML: Search for IE.au3 on the forum and for shdocvw and internetexplorer.application for zillionz of examples

3. PDF: A little harder but look for OCR in this forum and/or press the searchbutton on the adobe reader and use controlsend to send the text to find.

$oExcel = ObjCreate("Excel.Application")
$oWord = ObjCreate("Word.Application")
$oIE = ObjCreate("InternetExplorer.Application")

[ptrex]

@all

MS indexing can handle all of these file types.

MS indexing

Look in Post #9 on how to for PDF's.

regards,

ptrex