For this purpose, I think you have to use the tools created for this task.
You can use Index Server to index all your files.
And query Index Server like SQL Server via a connection to get the result of your search...
HTH :-)
>Hi
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>We want from VFP to be able to find a string in a lot of pdf file. User will put a string in a field to search for and vfp must find all pdf document containing that string. We were thinking about some dll able to do Ole with vfp and able to search in pdf returning information about all the file matching the search.
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>Any help will be appreciate.
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>Thanks
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>Mike
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