Rich,
There are text versions of files like PDFs, HTMLs, DOCs, and other kinds
of
files. That text is used in search engines.
I would like to use a D7 TMemo or rich text that can be loaded with the
text
version of any file on a WinNT/VISTA system (PPT, DOC, RTF, whatever
common
formats are available).
HTML and RTF actually already are text documents, with special tags in
delimiters. The other formats are special ones. I believe that search
engines and the like have special routines in themselves that convert the
PDF or whatever to text, then the engine stores the text version for
searching and sorting. (Often the text is split up so the full text version
no longer exists.) IOW, there is to text version open to the public, there
are multiples ones, one in each search engine and not available to others as
such.
You would need to write or buy routines that convert files from a few given
formats to text. I doubt that this would be easy or cheap, and I also doubt
that you could get conversions for most file types.
Rory Daulton
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