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Searching OCR in VBA

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2007-02-06 14:08:28
jason211
Registered: Feb 6 2007
Posts: 2

I am yet to find a definite answer on this so I will let the experts here give it a shot.
 
I have a access database with a list of pdf file paths in it. I am wondering if there is a way to programmatically do a boolean search on the OCR text and return the names of the files that have matches to Access.
 
If this is most easily done through an add in I am certainly open to that.

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2007-02-14 12:01:16
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thomp
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Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
Yes, you can use the "getPageNthWord" function through the JSO object to acquire text from a page. Look in the IAC reference for the PDDoc.GetJSObject function.

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