Don't "monitor a given folder every X-minutes". Use a FileSystemWatcher.
But that's not a solution to what to do to dig the text out. Mark Brooks' tool might well be the answer for that. (For some reason, I can't see that message any more in my mail. Odd.) Mark, is the code for your IFilter-based service available? At 10:25 PM 12/10/2006, Jon Rothlander wrote >Running it on a server as a service should be fine. It doesn't need to be >multi-threaded, although that would have been nice. > > - Small number of users > - Not even ran daily... maybe a few times a month. > - Very small Word docs (probably less than a single page) > > If a service app is used, it would simply monitor a given folder >every X-minutes. If there are docs, it would convert the docs to txt and >parse them and push the data up to the database. > > The service is also pushing many other doc types. The Word format is > just one of the supported types. So the txt parser and upload process > could be multi-threaded. The Word to txt conversion wouldn't have to > be. > >[snip] J. Merrill / Analytical Software Corp =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
