3 messages in com.googlegroups.google-desktop-developerRe: How does GDS extract text from .D...
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revi...@yahoo.com23 Apr 2005 12:28 
Keir Gordon25 Apr 2005 13:40 
Manas Tungare06 May 2005 08:14 
Subject:Re: How does GDS extract text from .DOC, .PPT, etc
From:Keir Gordon (k.@keirgordon.com)
Date:04/25/2005 01:40:10 PM
List:com.googlegroups.google-desktop-developer

See the 'IFilter' interface provided by the windows platform SDK.

--KG

revi@yahoo.com wrote:

Any ideas as to how GDS internally extracts text content from these files, without extracting all of the formatting/markup gibberish? Any tools/open source libraries out there that we can use in our own plugins to do the same thing with similar files ? Thanks, Revi