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Search for keyword in pdf file
Name: MisterTommy Date: July 22, 2005 at 15:26:30 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: P4 Intel
Comment:
I am wanting to create a VB application that will be able to search a pdf file(s) for key words that a user inputs. I am very new to VB...Can someone help?
Name: StuartS Date: July 23, 2005 at 06:01:54 Pacific
Reply:
You won'y be able to, at least not with any ease.
PDF files are compressed so there is no plain text to search on. You are first going to have to work out the file format of PDF files, uncompress them then read them.
Difficult for an experienced programmer let alone a novice.
Stuart
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Response Number 2
Name: MisterTommy Date: July 26, 2005 at 17:18:46 Pacific
Reply:
Wow, ok...So would it be difficult to uncompress a pdf file, and read it?
Perhaps I can write the file to a text file?? Then perform a search on the text file?
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Response Number 3
Name: StuartS Date: July 27, 2005 at 00:19:20 Pacific
Reply:
To write a PDF to a text file you are still going to have to uncompress the original PDF file.
Load a PDF file into notebook and you will see the type of problem you have.
The best you can do is to print the PDF to a file and do a search on the resulting file. But that means that you need to have a printer on you computer configured to print to a file and Acrobat Reader installed.
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