Hi Bruce. Thanks for the reply. I did, but no luck. On text files, I got the text just fine. On Word docs, I got the text but with a whole bunch of garbage in the return.
On ppt, pdf, and excel docs, they all come out as unreadable garbage. I tried both the "read" and "readbinary" actions and they both did not work. Maybe I am doing something wrong? I am using CF9. -RR On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Bruce Sorge <sor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Check out the CFFILE tag. That offers this type of functionality. > > Bruce > > > On Aug 10, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Robert Rhodes <rrhode...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hello again to all. > > > > I need a way to extract text from word, excel, text, pdf, and ppt files > > with Coldfusion, as the files are each submitted via a form. The output > > does not have to be particularly pretty or nicely formatted -- just plain > > text that can be stored and searched later. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > --RR > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:352110 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
