We are storing PDF files inside a SQL Server 2008R2 DB. We have installed the Adobe iFilter to create a full-text catalog in order to search these files. Everything was working great, until.... we tried to get the text out of that PDF for display on a website. I am at a loss. We want to be able to return the text of a PDF file as varchar(max) using just straight-up T-SQL. I assume we would need to create a function and *somehow* use the iFilter to pull out the text, but I cannot find any documentation on how to do such a thing. Has anyone done this? Is there documentation online anywhere? Thanks
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