Searching Within PDFs
To enable SharePoint to search within PDF files, you must install the Adobe PDF text filter. This task requires administrative privileges, so you may need to ask a system administrator to do the following:
Download the PDF text filter (ifilter60.exe) from http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2611 to the SharePoint server.
Run ifilter60.exe to install the filter on the server
You don't need to restart IIS for the changes to take effect. It may take a few minutes, however, for indexes to be generated for PDF files.
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