Configure pdf ifilter in wss 3.0

On the user Properties dialog box, click the Attributes tab, which Figure 7 shows. Click Add, then choose the Gender attribute. Read Full Post ». Feeds: Posts Comments. You should also get hold of a suitable Icon to use with PDFs, so that when they are listed in a document library they are easily recognisable.

There is a 17 x 17 one available on the Adobe web site here. Also note step 5 re stopping and re-starting the search service. This file is called, for version 8. I find using the true filesystem path and the file name is better than just using the file name, sometimes the dll can be listed in a few places. You may need to experiment. Anyway, I digress-- Once you've either found or added the. Posted by Callahan at AM. Hello, I tried this. I have Adobe 8. It is completely different from that one you mention, is that all right or is it supposed to be a sort of similar?

Even after full recrawl, I am unable to see strings from pdf. Do you have any idea what might I have done improperly? Otherwise, thank you for the article, it's useful. Regards Ravie. Let me try that again-- Ravie, I don't know why you were even in docicon. That has nothing to do with search, only with what icon is associated with what extension. Did you add the correct registry entries? Did you rerun the indexing service? Ravie, on further perusal, I have noticed that my docicon.

That kind of concerns me. But I can assure you that, with acrobat 8. MOSS allows for more control of search and indexing in the interface, and as such, may require more administration.

The acrordif. Now, I have browsed the registry further and found the acrordif. Sorry for confusing you :. Now, after full recrawl of the MOSS site collection, I tried to search for a pdf file saved as pdf from Word and was successful. Thank you very much for the article and help. Kind regards Ravie. One more question, is it possible somehow to be able to search scanned pdfs? I mean a sort of OCR function.

I wonder if you had any experience with this? Thank you once again. Hey Ravie, Thanks for clearing up the docicon. That's why I suggested which to search for and why I explicitly listed the correct one.

It is hard to know. Also, in MOSS, you can end up having to configure what content to crawl, and where, if you haven't set it up properly to begin with. But once I explained to him that not only were the documents going to be indexed AND the icon would show up in search and in document libraries , but that they would be full text indexed , he was very interested. The best blog that I found to help in this process will help you get most of the way. I also gleaned some supplementary info from this blog , even though it is aimed at MOSS.

The systems I installed on are as follows by the way, here is a great reference for figuring out what version of SharePoint is installed :. I was able to follow all of the directions up to the first registry subkey entry.

It took reading the blog comments to realize that I needed to replace the default key with the one in the directions —. Next, I needed to locate and download the image file for the PDF icon. When editing the docicon. Restarting the search service was not enough. All in all, these instructions were pretty easy to follow. On the SBS server, I had to stop and install and configure the Indexing Service, as it seems that indexing is not enabled by default on Server The installation and config worked well on Server with no issues.

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