Access Metadata from Office files

[Aaron Bertrand - MVP]

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

http://www.aspfaq.com/2296

 

[CJM]

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

 

[Tom Kaminski [MVP]]

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?

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

 

[CJM]

Thanks guys... both of those look good.

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

Cheers

Chris

 

[Tom Kaminski [MVP]]

dsofile will not work with PDF.

 

[MSFT]

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
Microsoft Online Support

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