On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 12:20 PM Jeffry Killen <jekillen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello;
Can anyone point me to instruction/advice about
opening and reading files that are not plain text:
word processing docs, pdf, ps, image files,
even complied code.
I am writing a search function to search file systems
and don't know a lot about the formatting of non plain
text files.
The immediate concern is line breaks in word
processing docs, pdf and ps files.
Then detecting compiled code files so I can
leave them alone. This type of file might not
have a suffix to consider.
Then the various image files that might be
encountered.
Even suffixes aren't a guarantee of the content.
Hi, what about read the different formats using different api. Then store the textual information on a database for easier searching?
Thanks
Jeff K.
