Searching text inside DOC/XLS (not DOCX/XSLX) - not interop

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Hello,
is there any solution for searching text inside DOC/XLS not using the interop DLLs from Microsoft with ASP.NET??
Thanks

Posted 24-May-11 21:35pm

Ponzano Paolo

Updated 25-May-11 5:33am

Marc A. Brown

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Richard MacCutchan 25-May-11 6:29am

Probably only by figuring out the file formats for yourself and finding the text in the file content. But why make it difficult for yourself when the interop is available?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-May-11 10:06am

OP commented:

Microsoft says not to use the Office Interop in ASP.net enviorment... since I need to perform search on a lot of documents I wish to do it at best
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Richard MacCutchan 25-May-11 10:52am

There is nothing in your question or tags to indicate this was an ASP.NET question.

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Marc A. Brown · Answer 1 · 2011-05-25T05:36:00

Solution 2

Would something like this[^] suit your purposes?

Posted 25-May-11 5:36am

Marc A. Brown