Search for a string inside PDF file

1 Mar 2006 10:43 AM

ra294

I need to search programmatically if a certain string appears inside a PDF
or CHM file.

The search is done only once for each file so I don't think that a solution
to index the file using Index server is right here.

Anyone knows how to do it?

A simple code example will be appreciated.

Thanks

Ra***@hotmail.com

1 Mar 2006 1:17 PM

Michael Nemtsev

It's not so easy as you would like to.
CHM and PDF is already compiled files, thus u need to know their structure
to work with, that's a bit hacky way

CHM format is here http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/HtmlHelp.asp

try to google to find a description of PDF format

"ra294" wrote:
> I need to search programmatically if a certain string appears inside a PDF
> or CHM file.
> The search is done only once for each file so I don't think that a solution
> to index the file using Index server is right here.
> Anyone knows how to do it?
> A simple code example will be appreciated.

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