For a C# web application I am wanting to index text from PDF, DOC, etc files stored in a database. I have been experimenting with an IFilter example on Code Project which works great for files fro...

I am trying to use Adobe IFilter to search PDF files. My code is written in C# and I am using p/invoke to get an instance of IFilter: [DllImport("query.dll", SetLastError = true, CharSet = CharSe...

I need to use an IFilter interface from a 32bit app on Windows x64 systems. This is easy for .doc files as offfilt.dll supports both build types. However, I need to also get the plain text from .do...

I have a problem whereby the Adobe PDF iFilter doesn't work consistently for us. As such, we like to use the one from Foxit. The problem is, if we install the Foxit iFilter and then later the clien...

I'm trying to write a C# utility that mimics the behavior of filtdump.exe from the Windows Search SDK (since filtdump doesn't appear to be redistributable itself.) I'm running into a combination of...

I'm currently using IFilters to extract text from various file (word, excel, tiff, pdf etc). I understand that IFilters have been discontinued with Windows 8. Does anyone have any recommendations o...

I'm trying to extract text from PDF files using an iFilter. The Adobe PDF iFilter that is distributed with Adobe Reader is awful, returning HRESULT E_FAIL messages for many PDF documents. The F...

I have a column, that is encrypted using symmetric key in a database. An encrypted content is just a text. I would like to query this text using full text search. Is it possible? I was thinking abo...

My development team are having a problem having snippets of text shown for search results in windows 7 for our own custom files (note we are NOT talking about the preview pane that uses the IPrevie...

Does anybody know of an API/SDK or IFilter in .NET that can read the subject ('title' metadata) and text from the following files: .PDF .DOC .XLS .PPT .CSV .TXT .DOCX .XLS .PPTX + the OpenOffice ...