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Search within PDF files does not work for sharepoint team sites

Asked By: Varsha Gupta Date: May 06, 2009 Category: Sharepoint Views: 337

I did implement the IFilter for PDF, however I can still not search in
the document contents. The documents (pdfs) are stored in Shared
Documents of a team site.

Tagged:search within pdf files does not work for sharepoint team sites

4 Answers Found

Answer #1 Answered By: Nidhi Tiwary Answered On: May 06, 2009

Are the PDF documents created from an electronic document or are they
scanned from a paper document into a PDF?

If they were created by scanning without OCR the image appears as a
graphic type file and SharePoint will not be able to search the
content.

Answer #2 Answered By: Beatrice Serrano Answered On: May 06, 2009

Can you open up the pdf and search for text within Adobe Reader? Are
the pdfs OCR'd?

Answer #3 Answered By: Maya Lewis Answered On: May 06, 2009

These are created PDF files. Some one mentioned that IFilter works only for the
sharepoint portal site and not when searching within a sharepoint services
(Team) site. Is that true?

Answer #4 Answered By: Paola Mcmahon Answered On: May 06, 2009

Not true, but you need to do things a bit differently. For SPS, the iFilter
needs to be installed on each Index server. For WSS the iFilter needs to be
installed on each database machine. If you have both, you'll need to install in
both locations

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