Access Metadata from Office files

How easy is it to access the metadata from office files and PDF's?

That is, Author, Title, Keywords, Comments etc...

Context:
I want to be able to scan a directory and provide links with descriptions
(ie Comments field) for each file within.

I can use automation to open and read the office files, but I imagine this
would produce too big a load on the webserver...

Is there a simple and slick way of doing this?

Cheers

Chris

re: Access Metadata from Office files

You can get some of these things from here (not keywords, I'm afraid):

http://www.aspfaq.com/2296


"CJM" <cjmwork@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> How easy is it to access the metadata from office files and PDF's?
>
> That is, Author, Title, Keywords, Comments etc...
>
> Context:
> I want to be able to scan a directory and provide links with descriptions
> (ie Comments field) for each file within.
>
> I can use automation to open and read the office files, but I imagine this
> would produce too big a load on the webserver...
>
> Is there a simple and slick way of doing this?
>
> Cheers
>
> Chris
>
>[/color]

re: Access Metadata from Office files

"CJM" <cjmwork@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> How easy is it to access the metadata from office files and PDF's?
>
> That is, Author, Title, Keywords, Comments etc...
>
> Context:
> I want to be able to scan a directory and provide links with descriptions
> (ie Comments field) for each file within.
>
> I can use automation to open and read the office files, but I imagine this
> would produce too big a load on the webserver...
>
> Is there a simple and slick way of doing this?[/color]

see http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224351

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re: Access Metadata from Office files

Thanks guys... both of those look good.

Not sure if wither will work on PDFs but I'm testing them out now...

Cheers

Chris

re: Access Metadata from Office files

dsofile will not work with PDF.

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"CJM" <cjmwork@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Thanks guys... both of those look good.
>
> Not sure if wither will work on PDFs but I'm testing them out now...
>
> Cheers
>
> Chris
>
>[/color]

re: Access Metadata from Office files

Hi Chris,

We can't deal with PDF files in the same way. PDF have different format
from DOC file. Based on my knowledge, there are some third party COM
library which supports to retrieve related information from PDF files. You
may search following site for more information:

http://www.planetpdf.com/

Luke
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