I would say that you are going to have to OCR the images and extract the words out. If this is an image you are creating, perhaps you could save keywords when you produce the file and create an index for the documents.
>Hello all,
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>I have developed a simple document imaging system for the insurance industry using Kodak Imaging ActiveX controls.
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>My client requested to be able to search the tiff files, but the problem is that the Kodak controls do not have this capability.
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>Does anybody know how to search for words within a tiff file?
>Is it posible?
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>Thanks,
>Sergio
Wayne Myers, MCSD
Senior Consultant
Forte' Incorporated
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