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Subject:Re: QUESTION: Search Engines & WORD Docs. From:"Bergerson, Carl A" <Carl -dot- Bergerson -at- UNISYS -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:04:53 -0800
Yes, convert them to Adobe PDF with full text search.
Carl Bergerson
Mission Viejo
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carl -dot- bergerson -at- unisys -dot- com
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> From: Andrews, Doug[SMTP:doug -dot- andrews -at- GS -dot- COM]
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 1998 1:11 PM
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> Subject: QUESTION: Search Engines & WORD Docs.
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> I would like to implement a search engine for users of our web site
> which is comprised mainly of long-ish WORD documents (about 150). Site
> is administered via FrontPage '97.
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> Since WORD stores files in a non-ascii format, I don't think a typical
> web search engine can sift through the contents of WORD files.
>
> So, anyone have a suggestion on how I might set up a search tool for
> finding information contained within those WORD documents on the web?
>
> Doug Andrews
> doug -dot- andrews -at- gs -dot- com
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