How to configure search to crawl content from PDF files

Question

Hi,

I have Sharepoint 2010 server. I configured search service application. I have only one site on port 80. it configured successfully and I got the search results.

but when I tried to search any word from the pdf file I didn't get any results. for office files it working

I installed adobe ifilter on sharepoint server. I got  search results for pdf file but if I search any content from pdf file. I didn't get any result. 

please any one tell me how to configure search to crawl content from pdf file.  

Answer 1

Hi.

Have you followed this KB:

SharePoint 2010 - Configuring Adobe PDF iFilter 9 for 64-bit platforms
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2293357

Make sure you have done the last steps as well, often overlooked:

• Restart the SharePoint Server Search 14
• Reboot the SharePoint servers in Farm
• Create a Test site (with any out-of-box site template) and create a document library upload any sample PDF document(s). (Not a must as you realize)
• Perform FULL Crawl to get search result.

Once the crawl is completed we will get search results.

Regards

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Answer 2

Hi Thomas,

I Restart the Search 14 and reboot the server and then perform full crawl. but still I didn't get search result for PDF content.

Do we need any other ifilter to install on server?

Answer 3

I have done the same steps as described at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2293357 and Working fine in my Test Server (Single Farm) but it is not working yet in Production Server (Multifarm).

My Production Servers are
2 Front End Server (Server Farm 1 & Server Farm 2) running under NBL
2 Storage (Clustered)

I have check Crawl Log (PDF content is not crawling)

Is there thing left to do?

Any Help?

Answer 4

Finally, I came up with the solution!! after considering all others possibilities.

Final Solution given at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointgeneralprevious/thread/2d4470ef-fd0a-4e12-8886-68837865dfba

Find Details Step by Step from my Blog Post

• SharePoint 2010 Search - PDF content search configuration in multi-farm Environment

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MJ Ferdous SharePoint Architect | BrainStation-23 http://geekswithblogs.net/ferdous