Archive for May, 2008

Indexing Word / Powerpoint / Excel / PDF

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

I am working on a project to allow full-text indexing of common file types such as word, powerpoint, excel and pdf. After searching for a few days, I have a hard time finding a perfect solution.

PDF

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

Word

http://ftp.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/

Excel

http://ftp.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/

PowerPoint