literal string seach on OCR documents different results in SSE 2008 and SPS2003

Question

I have an existing search solution that was built on Sharepoitn 2003, that searches a file share of pdf documents that have been OCR'd.   In that system a literal string search for "Sample collection date/Time 08-Aug-2009" will correctly return the document(s) that I am looking for.

I have a search server express 2008 setup to crawl the same file shares.  In this install the same search returns no results.

Any ideas on if the crawl/index/search settings can be manipulated to return the same resutls in both?

Answer 1

Is PDF indexing configured correctly in your Search Server env ? If not it will only index available file properties, not content.