Full Text Index search for PDF files

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I am having PDF's being stored in my DB as image data type, now I want to search the content of the PDF's using Full Text index.

I asked a question regarding performing search for content inside docuement in the code project for which I got the answer.
You can check the same at Link.

The above solution is working fine for .doc and .txt files but the content inside .pdf file is not being searched.

I tried installing PDF iFilter, but its not resolving my issue.

Posted 8-Aug-13 1:35am

Kumar Prateek

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Jean A Brandelero 8-Aug-13 8:01am

I don't know exactly how pdf is saved, but i think this is not possible.

RedDk 8-Aug-13 12:29pm

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virusstorm · Answer 1 · 2013-08-08T05:19:00

Solution 1

Without knowing more about your environment and database, I would suggest trying this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7690921/sql-server-pdf-full-text-search-not-working-on-filestream-pdf-file[^]

Posted 8-Aug-13 5:19am

virusstorm