How to set up search on text stored in an image type of data?

I am saving large text document in an image type of column in a SQL Server 2000 table.

How will I set up searching of words/ phrases for data stored in this column?

what type of documents are they? If it is just plaintext you really should store it in an nvarhcar(max) field instead. That way you can use SQL queries to search the text.

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But nvarchar has a length problem. If it's a word document that is stored and this doc's length is greater than varchar max size, then we have to use image or ntext datatype. Because of this I have to use image data type.

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That's going to be a challenge because the image data type is storing a byte array so i'm not sure if it is possible to search it without first pulling it down and manipulating it in your code behind.