What's the easiest way to read a title block, so I can index it in a search engine?

[thillZFC5A]

Hi -

I'd like to extract information from AutoCAD so users can search through thousands of .dwg files.  I think to start I just want to see what i can grab from a title block and index.

"Data extraction" seems to do exactly what I want, but that's an interactive process. I need to automate this, due to the number of files.

There seem to be a ton of possible approaches.

1. .net sdk/activeX

2. Lisp

3. Somehow run extraction from accoreconsole

4. Third party libraries like libreDWG

I'm just starting to look into this, and not very familiar with AutoCAD, so any suggestions for how to proceed are  appreciated.

[Sea-Haven]

accoreconsole is probably the fastest and can be set up to do whole directories, pushing the answers say to a csv file would be simplest, using OBDX could be used also. The next can of worms is say write direct to excel. 

So title block 1 or lots, Index what is it ? You would write something to do 1 at a time and get that working then jump into multiples. A hint when write-line to a file using "A" option appends to a existing file.

You do need to post a sample dwg.

[JTBWorld]

Data extraction can be automated. We at JTB World can help with customization to automate it or using other methods depending on your exact needs.