Showing posts with label pdf ifilter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pdf ifilter. Show all posts

Friday, December 23, 2011

Sharepoint and PDF ifilter

Simple to set up.

1.Install PDF iFilter 9.0 (64 bit) from http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025 (http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025)
2.Download PDF icon picture from Adobe web site http://www.adobe.com/misc/linking.html (http://www.adobe.com/misc/linking.html)  and copy to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\IMAGES\
3.Add the following entry in docIcon.xml file, which can be found at: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\XML
<Mapping Key="pdf" Value="pdf16.gif" />
4.Add pdf file type on the File Type page under Search Service Application
5.Open regedit
6. Copy the following to a file and save with a reg extension.  ex.  sharepoint.reg. 
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\14.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension\.pdf]
@="{E8978DA6-047F-4E3D-9C78-CDBE46041603}"
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•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).
•Perform FULL Crawl to get search result.