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Content not found with PDF iFilter

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 18:35
by Horst
I have problems to find PDF content.
I can find it with Windows Indexer and also with our Everything script.

The installed x64 iFilter is PDFlib TET PDF IFilter
https://www.pdflib.com/download/tet-pdf-ifilter/
I use it since many years and it runs fine as can be seen with the Windows search indexer.

XY searches thru 163 *.pdf files in 10 seconds, which I find much to long, but it finds nothing.
Configuration for using iFilters is set to "Use 64-bit iFilters for content search"

Re: Content not found with PDF iFilter

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 18:57
by admin
Select a PDF file and run text extracttext();. You will see what XY sees.

Re: Content not found with PDF iFilter

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 19:12
by Horst
With the TET PDF iFilter the result of text extracttext(); is empty.
If I set the PDF iFilter to SumatraPDF or PDF-XChange it finds text
but still doesn't find the content which is for shure there.

Re: Content not found with PDF iFilter

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 19:26
by admin
Can I have one of those PDFs?

Re: Content not found with PDF iFilter

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 20:05
by Horst
Here is one of many examples.
Extract the pdf file from it and search for the word Computing
zpaq - Journaling archiver for incremental backups.zip

Re: Content not found with PDF iFilter

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 20:10
by admin
Works fine. (PDF-XChange)

Re: Content not found with PDF iFilter

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 20:15
by Horst
Not for me, tested with 3 available iFilter modules :(
Isn't a real problem as I do content searches always with Everything :biggrin:

Re: Content not found with PDF iFilter

Posted: 01 Dec 2021 20:20
by highend
Works fine here as well, SumatraPDF x64 with support for epub, mobi, etc. (https://mega.nz/folder/WwIiFDyZ#eA2g4lws9YNOuEI0a9Dkpw)