I must apologise in advance for thins being off topic. I am trying to find a way to extract data from about 5,000 autocad files so that we can build a database with the information. The information is in a specific area of the drawing and consists of individual text objects, each containing a 5 digit number. We want to read out this data for each drawing. I am looking for someone who can write me a simple program to do it. If anyone can give me a starting point for this I would be appreciative. Regards, David Meyer