need help on intranet database for powerpoint documents

[tchong]

hi i want to create a intranet database for my powerpoint documents so i can do a research without connecting to the web just to a folder on my mac and find documents using specific keywords. Can you tell me what software can do this kind of task and what language should i be looking at ?
I would like the search engine to run on internet explorer and it's search queries to go into every word of the powerpoint documents.
Any hint would help me a lot
thanx !!!!!

[Khalid Ali]

that sounds a bit complex,because you want to the search engine to actually read the *.ppt file, and go through any text in it.
For that alone(if I am not mistaken) you will need to write some code in VB(if this is possible to begin with)..so I'd say..look into VB and search the internet to read *ppt files with it,I hope you will find your answer

[tchong]

I didn't think that was the most difficult part !
Because i saw many softwares able to read all of the microsoft formats easily including ppt, so i'll take a look at the vb way of doing things, do you have an idea for the rest : which language could do the search engine in itself? how i can access this on intranet using macintosh?
thanx for your help