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64-bit support for Adobe PDF IFilter finally available.

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Finally Adobe has come up with an interim solution to address the non-availability of a 64 bit ifilter. Now one can use the 32-bit Adobe IFilter on 64-bit platforms after installing a DCOM addin from Adobe. The installation instructions can be found on the Adobe Labs Wiki . 

This is a great oppurtunity for folks who have a 64-bit installation of Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 and want to index pdf documents, but do not want to spend money on a 64-bit FOXIT IFilter.

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  • Anonymous
    November 14, 2007
    Finally Adobe has come up with an interim solution to address the non-availability of a 64 bit ifilter

  • Anonymous
    November 14, 2007
    Finally Adobe has come up with an interim solution to address the non-availability of a 64 bit ifilter

  • Anonymous
    November 15, 2007
    Hi, I would be interested in creating a general version of the 64 bit 'adapter'. We'd like to support our DWG IFilter 2007 32 bit on 64 bit too. Any thoughts for this? Marco van Schagen / www.dwgigilter.com / ifilter@cadcompany.nl

  • Anonymous
    November 28, 2007
    Actually, a good place to discuss these deployment and implementation issues is the Adobe discussion forum itself: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid=72&catid=654&entercat=y cheers, Deb.

  • Anonymous
    December 18, 2007
    I'm curious to know why Windows Desktop Search is required for the 64 bit implementation of Adobe's iFilter.  Any explanations?  Thanks.

  • Anonymous
    December 21, 2007
    any chance this adobe solution can be registered to work with sql server 05?  adobe rep seems to indicate this is possible (http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=72&catid=654&threadid=1316196&enterthread=y), but adobe apparently is not planning to release instructions on how this is done :-( any insights?!

  • Anonymous
    February 17, 2008
    Hi there, I follow the procedures to config the indexer server and something strange. After full crawl, I can search the PDF files by using the filename, metadata in MOSS. However, I cannot search the PDF files by entering the text that inside the PDF files. Any wrong here? Any ideas?

  • Anonymous
    February 17, 2008
    Paul, what does the crawl log say for the pdf files under consideration? Also, can you use filtdump/ifilttst and filter the pdf files ? If not, then its likely that the filter is not correctly registered.

  • Anonymous
    March 24, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    December 11, 2008
    Hi Paul, I have noticed in some cases that the actual PDF file is somhow locked or in some strange format and in that case the text can't be indexed. You can do a test by opening one of the pdf-files copy some text and past it into Notepad. If the pasted text gives you strange letters, then it's probably the files that the problems. I have not been able to dig down in what causes the strange pdf-file format.