Thanks for all the posts. After reading and googling all afternoon, I
think the best approach for me is:
Create two macros in Word (done!) to export each of my .doc files to
.txt and .pdf formats.
Create a sql table to hold the .txt contents of my .doc files, along
with a reference to the meeting date and the name of the corresponding
.pdf file.
Upload my two sets of files with an ftp client and then use a script to
load the table with my .txt file data.
Now I just need a couple of scripts to allow a user to locate a file and
bring up the pdf for when he wants to read about a meeting. And a
second script to accept user input (search words) and perform a query
against the textual data and present some kind of results - probably a
listing containing a reference to the meeting date and a tbd-length
string showing the matching result for each occurrence, ie, something
like n chars in front of and after the match so the user can see the
context of the match.
Sizes - a 28k .doc file grows to 142kb in .pdf format and is only 5kb in
.txt format. (actually, if I 'print' the .doc as a pdf instead of using
the Word's "File,Save as", the resulting pdf is only 70kb. Might need a
new macro!)
Thanks again!
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