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PDF files not indexed Steve 10-11-2006
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Posted by nosajeel on October 14, 2006, 1:44 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?
>

Posted by nosajeel on October 14, 2006, 1:44 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?
>

Posted by nosajeel on October 16, 2006, 1:15 pm
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Download Foxit PDF ifilter, that works with WDS 3. Although I can't get the
preview function to work, so if you can let me know.

"Steve" 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.
> --
> Steve
> drsteve@pobox.com

Posted by chaotron on October 26, 2006, 5:42 am
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I had the same problem with non-indexed files. The Foxit PDF IFilter solved
that. Thanks for the tip!

"nosajeel" wrote:

> Download Foxit PDF ifilter, that works with WDS 3. Although I can't get the
> preview function to work, so if you can let me know.
>
> "Steve" 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.
> > --
> > Steve
> > drsteve@pobox.com

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