Hi all,

I'm developing an application that maintains a store of Word documents, and
one of the features is for basic searching into the docs. However, I'd like
to enhance it to allow a more 'clever' searching - heuristic or 'fuzzy
logic' or whatever it's called - to be able to judge what the document is
'about' or how similar it is to another document or phrase or something.

I'm ideally looking for a DLL or ActiveX object or something that I can call
in my app, giving it the rule of what to look for and the document, and it
will give me back a fitness rating for the doc, which I can then present to
the users in order of fitness. Preferably something with no UI of its own.

Can anyone recommend such a DLL or ActiveX product? Or am I approaching this
the wrong way?

Thanks,
Dave

G'day "Dave Williams" ,

There is no such dll. However, the basic logic is compare
ever-increasing fragment sizes of each string. Recent research
indicates that fragments beyond 4 letters long have reduced
effectiveness for comparison time taken.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic

steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment)
Without prejudice


Dave Williams reckoned:

Hi all,

I'm developing an application that maintains a store of Word documents, and
one of the features is for basic searching into the docs. However, I'd like
to enhance it to allow a more 'clever' searching - heuristic or 'fuzzy
logic' or whatever it's called - to be able to judge what the document is
'about' or how similar it is to another document or phrase or something.

I'm ideally looking for a DLL or ActiveX object or something that I can call
in my app, giving it the rule of what to look for and the document, and it
will give me back a fitness rating for the doc, which I can then present to
the users in order of fitness. Preferably something with no UI of its own.

Can anyone recommend such a DLL or ActiveX product? Or am I approaching this
the wrong way?

Thanks,
Dave

Thanks for that. It's disappointing if there's no purchasable products that
offer 'more intelligent' searching through Word documents, but thanks for
the suggested technique anyway.

"Word Heretic" wrote in message
...
G'day "Dave Williams" ,

There is no such dll. However, the basic logic is compare
ever-increasing fragment sizes of each string. Recent research
indicates that fragments beyond 4 letters long have reduced
effectiveness for comparison time taken.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic

steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment)
Without prejudice


Dave Williams reckoned:

Hi all,

I'm developing an application that maintains a store of Word documents,
and
one of the features is for basic searching into the docs. However, I'd
like
to enhance it to allow a more 'clever' searching - heuristic or 'fuzzy
logic' or whatever it's called - to be able to judge what the document is
'about' or how similar it is to another document or phrase or something.

I'm ideally looking for a DLL or ActiveX object or something that I can
call
in my app, giving it the rule of what to look for and the document, and
it
will give me back a fitness rating for the doc, which I can then present
to
the users in order of fitness. Preferably something with no UI of its
own.

Can anyone recommend such a DLL or ActiveX product? Or am I approaching
this
the wrong way?

Thanks,
Dave

G'day "Dave Williams" ,

There are bound to be third party apps that will do it on a file
search baiss for you - just nothing I know about within the std
implementation.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic

steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment)
Without prejudice


Dave Williams reckoned:

Thanks for that. It's disappointing if there's no purchasable products that
offer 'more intelligent' searching through Word documents, but thanks for
the suggested technique anyway.

"Word Heretic" wrote in message
.. .
G'day "Dave Williams" ,

There is no such dll. However, the basic logic is compare
ever-increasing fragment sizes of each string. Recent research
indicates that fragments beyond 4 letters long have reduced
effectiveness for comparison time taken.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic

steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment)
Without prejudice


Dave Williams reckoned:

Hi all,

I'm developing an application that maintains a store of Word documents,
and
one of the features is for basic searching into the docs. However, I'd
like
to enhance it to allow a more 'clever' searching - heuristic or 'fuzzy
logic' or whatever it's called - to be able to judge what the document is
'about' or how similar it is to another document or phrase or something.

I'm ideally looking for a DLL or ActiveX object or something that I can
call
in my app, giving it the rule of what to look for and the document, and
it
will give me back a fitness rating for the doc, which I can then present
to
the users in order of fitness. Preferably something with no UI of its
own.

Can anyone recommend such a DLL or ActiveX product? Or am I approaching
this
the wrong way?

Thanks,
Dave