Karim Zaki

Adobe PDF IFilter Indexing with SharePoint 2010


This note explains how to enablePDF indexing using the Adobe IFilter version 9.0 in Microsoft SharePoint 2010.
  1. Download PDF icon picture from Adobe web site http://www.adobe.com/misc/linking.html  name it ex: pdf16.gif  and copy to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\IMAGES\ 
  2. 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” />

Now add PDF as a file type:

  • Run Central Administration.
  • Click Manage service applications under “Application Management”:
  • Click the Search Service Application link in the list of applications.
  • Click File Types  under “Crawling” in the left navigation area:
  • Click New File Type.
  • Enter pdf for the “File Name Extension” and click OK.
  • Using Regedit on the server, navigate to

\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftOfficeServer14.0SearchSetupFilters

  •  Right-click the Filters  folder and select New Key. Enter “.pdf” for the key value.
  • Add the following values to this key:

<REG_SZ> Default =<value not set>
<REG_SZ> Extension = pdf
<REG_DWORD> FileTypeBucket = 1
<REG_SZ> MimeTypes = application/pdf
The key should look like:

  • Navigate to: \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftOffice Server14.0SearchSetupContentIndexCommonFiltersExtension
  •  Right-click the Filters  folder and select New Key. Enter “.pdf” for the key value.
  • Set the “default” value to {E8978DA6-047F-4E3D-9C78-CDBE46041603}

The key should look like:

You can now add an image to beused for the icon for PDF documents:

  • Add an image (typically gif or png, use Google images to find an example) for the PDF icon to the folder:

C:Program FilesCommonFilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions14TEMPLATEIMAGES

  •  Open the file docicon.xml from the location:

C:Program FilesCommonFilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions14TEMPLATEXML

  •  Add a link to map the pdf extension to the image by adding a link like the following to the ByExtension element:

<Mapping Key=”pdf” Value=”pdf_icon.gif” OpenControl=””/>

  •  Finally, issue an IISReset and restart the Windows services “SharePoint Foundation Search V4” and “SharePoint Server Search 1”.
http://nickgrattan.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/adobe-pdf-ifilter-indexing-with-sharepoint%C2%A02010/
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Published by Karim Zaki

• MBA Major MIS • MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) Windows XP. • Microsoft Certified in (Managing and Maintaining Microsoft server 2003). • Microsoft Certified in (implementing, Managing, and maintaining a Microsoft windows server 2003 infrastructure) • Microsoft Certified in (Maintaining a MS Win Server 2003 Active Directory) • MCSA 2003 • ISA 2006 Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006, Configuring • MCTS Microsoft Certified Technology specialist • MCITP 2008 (Microsoft Certified IT professional) • MCSA 2012 Server (Microsoft Certified solution Associate) • AZURE Administrator Associate (AZ-103) • MS 365 Identities and services (MS-100) • MS 365 Mobility and security (MS-101) • Microsoft 365 Certified: Security Administrator Associate (MS-203) • Microsoft 365 certified enterprise administrator expert (MS-500) • Messaging Administrator Associate (MS-203) • Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500) • Information Security: Context and Introduction • Microsoft Security Operations Analyst

9 comments

  3. the steps you outline in the reg key \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftOfficeServer14.0SearchSetupFilters are NOT in MS’s knowledge base article on the topic. Can you please explain why you would have added registry keys Microsoft doesn’t mention in their information. Such recommendations would seem t omake the entire article untrustworthy now.

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