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  1. jelena27

    Tool to extract text from dwg file

    Hi Todd, thanks for answer. Yes, that's excatly what we are trying to avoid - having AutoCAD installed on production machines, that's why DWGDirect sounds more reasonable. You mentioned AutoCAD hanging from time to time, what is your experience with DWGDirect, how fast it is, does it hang...
  2. jelena27

    Tool to extract text from dwg file

    Hi John, as we are providing document management system, we can not control or require any specific type of text or attributes in dwg files. We only get whatever our customers upload and need to index text out of it, so that it is available through search. At the moment we are evaluating...
  3. jelena27

    Tool to extract text from dwg file

    Hi Todd, yes we are still looking for the tool and didn't really come any closer... Issue is that we don't know too much about cad and dwg format, as we are all java developers, but have customer dwg files to index. Is it possible that we are the only one having that issue to index dwg files...
  4. jelena27

    Autocad drawing paste to Excel

    Hi, is there any batch tool which can extract text from dwg, from layers as well, which we could use for text indexing (we need to include text from layers in our text index)? Thanks, Jelena
  5. jelena27

    Tool to extract text from dwg file

    Hi all, we are searching for the batch tool (preferably for linux) which can process dwg and other cad formats, and extract text which is required for indexing. So what we need ideally is command line tool where input is dwg file, and output is text file which contains all text which is in...

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