Se her dah.. -Morten [Alex Bowyer] | Our company has a repository of staff CVs (Resumes) as Word Documents and I | am about to embark on creating a new feature for our Zope Intranet to allow | project managers to search those documents for keywords such as particular | skills or projects. | | I am thinking about several possibilities such as a skills/CVs database | linked in via ODBC, or some task that converts the Word documents to text | files which can then be searched by Zope (I think Zope can do this, and I | assume it can't search Word format directly?). | | Has anyone ever approached a similar problem, does anyone have any tips on | how to index/search a load of documents in Zope? | | Any tips/suggestions/comments would be most welcome. | | Thanks, | | Alex | | ================================== | Alex Bowyer | IT Consultant, Logica Australasia | Tel : +61 2 9202 8130 | Fax : +61 2 9922 7466 | E-mail : bowyera@logica.com | WWW : http://www.logica.com.au/ | ================================== | | _______________________________________________ | Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org | http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope | ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** | (Related lists - | http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce | http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )

Alex, If your running Zope on Win32 you could use COM to snatch the text fairly easily and quickly. The COM interface to Word is well documented in the help files (if they're not installed, you'll find them on the CD). I used this technique to create XML from Word in the past and it works (was too slow for my needs tho, YMMV) hth Phil phil.harris@zope.co.uk On Tue, 02 Jan 2001, Bowyer, Alex wrote:

Our company has a repository of staff CVs (Resumes) as Word Documents and I am about to embark on creating a new feature for our Zope Intranet to allow project managers to search those documents for keywords such as particular skills or projects.

I am thinking about several possibilities such as a skills/CVs database linked in via ODBC, or some task that converts the Word documents to text files which can then be searched by Zope (I think Zope can do this, and I assume it can't search Word format directly?).

Has anyone ever approached a similar problem, does anyone have any tips on how to index/search a load of documents in Zope?

Any tips/suggestions/comments would be most welcome.

Thanks,

Alex

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