Searching in the content of documents

[driessen]

Hello,

I have a folder with thousands of documents : Word-documents (doc, docx and rtf) and PDF-documents.
I need to do a search in the content of all these documents to see if certain words can be found.
This results into a list of documents, all of them containing the word I have been searching for.

This proces needs to be done within my application.

Any suggestions?

Thank you very much in advance.

[Otto]

Michel,
maybe you can use findstr?
memowrit bat-file and winexec() and memoread the result.
findstr /P "xbrowse" C:\FWH\samples\*.* >test.log

Best regards,
Otto

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/884 ... str-comman

[csincuir]

Or you can also use FileSeek:
https://www.fileseek.ca/
It's fast and easy to use

Best regards

Carlos

[Otto]

Carlos,
I remember that I did tests with fileseek. But you need the paid version to get a CSV export of the results.
Best regards,
Otto

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=33244&p=196025&hilit=fileseek&sid=b0f3b637d2d0ef8daf74d1ff56516df8#p196025

[Otto]

Hello Michel,
findstr() does not search DOCX.
For DOCX I use UNZIP and then search in the XML files.

I have a test here with UNZIP the DOCX files and search then in the XML file.
116 DOCX files are searched. Only one contains the search term.

Best regards,
Otto

[driessen]

Hello Otto,

Thank you very much for your efforts trying to help me.
How about your suggestion when one need to search in a few hundred thousands of documents?
Is the system still doing its job?

I'll have to test it but I will only be able to test in the second half of next week since I'm going on holiday for one week.
But I'll start my test asap.

Thanks once again.

[Jimmy]

hi,

have not test it yet but there "seems" to be a "simple" Way using ADO

look at Github for "Windows-classic-samples-main.zip" (have no Link yet)

Windows-classic-samples-main.zip\Windows-classic-samples-main\Samples\Win7Samples\winui\WindowsSearch\WSFromScript\QueryEverything.vbs

---

page_type: sample
languages:
- vbscript
products:
- windows-api-win32
name: WSFromScript sample
urlFragment: wsfromscript-sample
description: Demonstrates to query Windows Search from a Microsoft Visual Basic script using Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO).
extendedZipContent:
- path: LICENSE
target: LICENSE
---

# WSFromScript sample
The WSFromScript code sample demonstrates how to query Windows Search from a Microsoft Visual Basic script using Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO).