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Search pdf and zip files ? Cat_in_awe 07-22-2005
Posted by Cat_in_awe on July 22, 2005, 10:16 am
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I've installed the adobe_ifilter60.exe to scan PDF files and
ZipFilterNCE1_1.exe to scan ZIP files. However, the contents of the zip
files and PDFs aren't being cataloged in the index.

I also added .pdf and .zip to the list of files types under "Index files
types as text" in the Advanced Desktop Seearch option.

What else do I need to do to get it to index the PDFs and contents of zip
file ?

--
GPC




Posted by Cat_in_awe on July 27, 2005, 2:04 pm
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Let me try again.

Has anyone used the add-ins that are supposed to allow .pdf and the contents
of .zip files to be indexed? Has anyone acutally made this work ? PDFs
don't work at all and word documents inside .zip files don't get indexed as
far as I can tell.

--
GPC




Posted by Cat_in_awe on July 28, 2005, 1:12 pm
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Cat_in_awe wrote:
> Let me try again.
>
> Has anyone used the add-ins that are supposed to allow .pdf and the
> contents of .zip files to be indexed? Has anyone acutally made this
> work ? PDFs don't work at all and word documents inside .zip files
> don't get indexed as far as I can tell.


The problem was that I was over-zealous in implementing the search of .pdf
and .zip files. I had added those extensions to the list of files to 'index
as text', and it was looking at those file types hoping to see plain text in
them and because they are really binary in nature, it didn't come up with
anything to index. When I removed .pdf and .zip from that list (reverting
that list to it's default look), the two ifilter plug-ins allowed .pdfs and
..zips to be indexed correctly.

--
GPC




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