Just Released - PDF IFilter for x64 Bit!
Hey all,
I've recently posted about the problem we have with PDF IFilters and x64 bit. In the solutions area, I've mentioned a company called Foxit that was rumored to be developing a compatible version. Guess what? THEY'RE DONE and IT'S FREE!!!
Here's a brief from the release notes:
Foxit PDF IFilter supports following Microsoft products: Windows Indexing Service, MSN Desktop Search, Internet Information Server, SharePoint Portal Server, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), Site Server, Exchange Server, SQL Server and all other products based on Microsoft Search technology. Foxit PDF IFilter acts as a plug-in for full-text search engines.
Step 1, the search engine go through a designate place, e.g. a file folder or a database, and indexes all documents or newly modified documents, including PDF documents, in the background and create internal data to store indexing result.
Step 2, a user specify some keyword he would like to search and the search engine answer the query immediately by looking up the indexing result and respond to the user with all the documents that contains the keyword.
During Step 1, the search engine itself doesn't understand format of a PDF document. Therefore, it looks in windows registry for an appropriate PDF IFilter and finds the Foxit PDF IFilter. Foxit PDF IFilter understand PDF format. It filters out embedded formatting and extracts text from the document and return text back to the search engine.
Key benefits:
- Integrates with existing operating systems and tools within your company
- Provides an easy solution to search within PDF documents located on local computer, local network and intranet
- Greatly increases your ability to accurately locate information
- Much smaller and faster than IFilter offered by other vendors
- Support Chinese/Japanese/Korean PDF documents
Download the x32 Bit here and Download the x64 Bit here. Please note that this installer does not register with MOSS 2007 by default. That means that after you install it, MOSS will not use it to index pdf files. This could be fixed manually with some registry tweaking:
- After you install the Foxit, add a pdf extension in MOSS search settings
- Open regedit, locate [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\12.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension\.pdf]
- Change the default value to {987f8d1a-26e6-4554-b007-6b20e2680632} . (You can get this handler addin value using Citeknet ifilter explorer)
- Cmdline: net stop osearch
- Cmdline: net start osearch
- Do a full crawl.
Well, like Scooby-Doo would probably say: "I think we solved another mystery Shaggy!". Enjoy,
Adir Ron.