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Ahmad Farid
Ahmad Farid

Reputation: 14764

Searching through pdf files on SharePoint

I upload documents on SharePoint list and i could search their contents in case they are .doc or .txt files. However, search results do not include files of type .pdf or .docx Is there something to include or add? Thank you!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 825

Answers (2)

Ashutosh Singh-MVP SharePoint
Ashutosh Singh-MVP SharePoint

Reputation: 5283

SharePoint uses Ifilter for indexing the content of any type of document uploaded to the SharePoint. for office products like word, excel powerpoint the filter is provided with the installation for any other document types like PDF, Zip, tiff user would have to install the respective ifilter for PDF documents the latest ifilter can be downloaded from the adobe site after the installation of ifilter you would be required to add the file extension in file types in your ssp search setting

Upvotes: 1

Frédéric Hamidi
Frédéric Hamidi

Reputation: 262919

Sharepoint uses IFilter plugins to search the contents of non-trivial and non-Office files. Try installing the Adobe PDF IFilter. There's also documentation explaining how to configure it.

Upvotes: 3

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