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PDF files not indexed Steve 10-11-2006
Posted by Steve on October 11, 2006, 5:45 pm
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I installed the pdf ifilter; then restarted windows desktop search; then
rebuilt the index. But I still can't get it to turn up anything in a pdf
file. What am I missing? Do I have to leave Adobe open (like you have to do
with Outlook) for WDS to index the files? Or maybe something else? Thanks for
the help.
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Steve
drsteve@pobox.com

Posted by Andy on October 13, 2006, 1:09 pm
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> I installed the pdf ifilter; then restarted windows desktop search;
> then rebuilt the index. But I still can't get it to turn up
> anything in a pdf file. What am I missing? Do I have to leave Adobe
> open (like you have to do with Outlook) for WDS to index the files?
> Or maybe something else? Thanks for the help.

The indexing and retrieval of PDFs on my WDS works without any special
interventions.

Have you double checked to see that the folders are included in Options
| Indexing | Browse button?

Also "PDF" should not be in either list in Options | Advanced.

Posted by nosajeel on October 13, 2006, 7:44 pm
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I have the same probelm. I have WDS Beta 2, Windows XP, and Adobe PDF
ifilter 6.0. In the "advanced options" in WDS PDF files are checked and
"Index Properties and File Contents" is chosen. But the text of PDFs is not
being indexed. Even when I rebuild the index.

I didn't have this problem with previous versions of WDS.

Any ideas?

"Andy" wrote:

>
> > I installed the pdf ifilter; then restarted windows desktop search;
> > then rebuilt the index. But I still can't get it to turn up
> > anything in a pdf file. What am I missing? Do I have to leave Adobe
> > open (like you have to do with Outlook) for WDS to index the files?
> > Or maybe something else? Thanks for the help.
>
> The indexing and retrieval of PDFs on my WDS works without any special
> interventions.
>
> Have you double checked to see that the folders are included in Options
> | Indexing | Browse button?
>
> Also "PDF" should not be in either list in Options | Advanced.
>

Posted by Andy on October 14, 2006, 1:06 pm
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On 14 Oct 2006, =?Utf-8?B?bm9zYWplZWw=?=

> I have the same probelm. I have WDS Beta 2, Windows XP, and Adobe
> PDF ifilter 6.0. In the "advanced options" in WDS PDF files are
> checked and "Index Properties and File Contents" is chosen. But
> the text of PDFs is not being indexed. Even when I rebuild the
> index.


It's a random guess but I think some DS's only index up to a certain
amount of a file. Is text missing from WDS from the beginning as well
as the end of the PDF?

Posted by nosajeel on October 14, 2006, 1:43 pm
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I don't get any words from PDFs.

"Andy" wrote:

> On 14 Oct 2006, =?Utf-8?B?bm9zYWplZWw=?=
>
> > I have the same probelm. I have WDS Beta 2, Windows XP, and Adobe
> > PDF ifilter 6.0. In the "advanced options" in WDS PDF files are
> > checked and "Index Properties and File Contents" is chosen. But
> > the text of PDFs is not being indexed. Even when I rebuild the
> > index.
>
>
> It's a random guess but I think some DS's only index up to a certain
> amount of a file. Is text missing from WDS from the beginning as well
> as the end of the PDF?
>

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