Re: OLE Word... (or PDF?)

Why are you storing the data as a Word file? Why not convert the document to PDF already, search that, and if you find a match, extract a page into a new PDF? I'm sure that would be faster.

Or just make every song into a separate PDF file. Store the text and index pointer into a database — maybe a flatfile.

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Re: Re: OLE Word... (or PDF?) by jpavel (Sexton) on Mar 24, 2004 at 20:35 UTC
In an ideal world, I'd love that. The creator of this solution sent out a Word template, so all the users are submitting docs, which will be continually editied/updated from the repository. The web front ideally needs to pull from these files to make sure it's the latest version. Not an ideal solution, but something I hope to be able to work with.	[reply]