On 12/13/2012 02:49 PM, Jim Giner wrote:
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!
I wrote this script a few years ago that extracted the plain text out of
the .doc file.
http://www.cmsws.com/examples/applications/word2_/convert.php
if you look in the directory you will see a few example files.
You can view them like this.
.../convert.php?filename=test_building.doc
replace test_building.doc with any of the other .doc files from the dir
listing to see its contents.
I currently have it set to 64bit width rows. Show you some nice pattern
stuff with the MS Word format.
I have the source file viewable for the convert.php script as well.
http://www.cmsws.com/examples/applications/word2_/convert.phps
I have thought about extending this even further to figure out the
layout and test formatting. But it hasn't gotten much attention for
quite some time now.
Hope it helps.
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Jim Lucas
http://www.cmsws.com/
http://www.cmsws.com/examples/
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