Thanks for the sample. I try this code but acrobat _cliptext seem to be empty. I will try with some other pdf file to see if this is allways the case. Also I will check on the web to find some tricks about oShell.AppActivate("Acrobat Reader") and how to control Acrobat reader from VFP

Thanks

Mike



>See if this meet your needs:
>
>

>IF ADIR(aa,"c:\*.pdf")<=0
>	?"???"
>	RETURN
>ENDIF
>
>lcfind="yourword"
>
>oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
>FOR ia =1 TO ALEN(aa,1)
>	_cliptext=""
>	
>	oShell.Run("c:\"+aa[ia,1])
>
>	lnsec=SECONDS()
>	DO WHILE NOT oShell.AppActivate("Acrobat Reader - ["+aa[ia,1]+"]") and;
>			SECONDS()-lnsec <60
>		WAIT WINDOW TIMEOUT 1.0 "Open "+aa[ia,1]
>	ENDDO
>	IF oShell.AppActivate("Acrobat Reader - ["+aa[ia,1]+"]")
>
>		oShell.SendKeys("%ES")	
>		oShell.SendKeys("%EC")
>
>		INKEY(5)
>
>		oShell.SendKeys("%FC")  &&close pdf file
>
>	ENDIF
>
>	?aa[ia,1], lcfind$_cliptext
>	
>ENDFOR
>
>IF oShell.AppActivate("Acrobat Reader")
>	oShell.SendKeys("%Fx")
>endif
>
>oShell =.null.
>
>

>
>>Hi
>>
>>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.
>>
>>Any help will be appreciate.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Mike