[rt-users] Search Word document attachments?

[Kenneth Marshall]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:15:19AM -0500, Jeff Blaine wrote:
> We have the need to be able to search MS Word documents
> as part of RT search.
>
> Any ideas where to start on that?
>
> Thanks!
>

You will need a MS Word -> text converter. Then when an
attachment is of type MSWord, run the converter to generate
a text version of the document, then use that to feed a
fulltext index. Then your searches will pull up the
documents automatically.

Cheers,
Ken