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Article #3667Re: Word without ole
From: Boba
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 15:56
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 15:56
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<Francesco> wrote in message news:445b755f$1@newsgroups.borland.com... > Hello, > > I'd like to extract plain text and properties (author, comments,...) > from MS word documents. I tried using ole but is very slow and in > addiction i can't get property informations. Is there any way to get > those infos directly? > > Thank you in advance, Francesco > good question. I had no problems with IStream approach, it was not noticeably slower compared against direct BIFF reading, and it does have an advantage: portability (unless you get notified by MS on any file format changes).
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X-Google-Thread: 10cc67,52fef08d8727534f X-Google-Attributes: gid10cc67,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit From: "Boba" <Boba@somewhere.world> Newsgroups: borland.public.cppbuilder.nativeapi References: <445b755f$1@newsgroups.borland.com> Subject: Re: Word without ole Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 08:56:15 -0700 Lines: 17 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.22.54.10 Message-ID: <4469d879@newsgroups.borland.com> X-Trace: newsgroups.borland.com 1147787385 69.22.54.10 (16 May 2006 06:49:45 -0700) Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mail