Friday, February 13, 2015

Installing the Adobe PDF iFilter for Windows

If you need to perform any type of full-text indexing and searching on Adobe PDFs (such as with any document search engine such as Lucene or SharePoint), you will likely need the Adobe PDF iFilter which you can download from here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=1&platform=Windows

In addition, you will need to follow these instructions on how to set up and configure the Adobe PDF iFilter for your Windows OS: http://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/AdminGuide/Acrobat_Reader_IFilter_configuration.pdf

The installation of the Adobe PDF iFilter software is relatively simple and straightforward:






If you are interested in configuring the Adobe PDF iFilter for SharePoint, you should check out this Microsoft article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2293357

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