Search in online PDF/MS-WORD files

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I'm developing a tool that searches the keyword entered by the user on a given site. My problem is, it searches the keyword only on html/web pages but not on the PDF/MS-Word files found on the site.

Can anyone suggest me some api/tool or provide the code that can search text from the online PDF/MS-Word/Text file? I need to download only those files that contain a particular keyword (text).

Posted 20-May-10 1:29am

saubhagya777@gmail.com

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Pete O'Hanlon · Answer 1 · 2010-05-20T01:41:00

Is this site elsewhere, or is it your site? If you are searching on your site then you can use the Index Server to search through the documents. If it's on a different server then you will have to adopt a more brute force approach.

With the brute force approach, you will need to copy the document onto your system and then use the IFilter COM API to get the text from the document. Have a look at this[^] article for more detail on how to use it.