Searching Other Document Formats
SharePoint Portal Server provides, as discussed in Chapter 5, filters used to retrieve text and properties for most common document formats. But the list may not include your favorite document formats, such as PDF, a common format for archived information. In such cases, you need to check if an IFilter is available. If you cannot find a suitable IFilter, you can consider the usage of the plain text filter, or just index the system properties such as name, creation date, and last modification date.
TIP
You can download an IFilter for PDF from Adobe. Check http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=1276.
For PDFs that are saved as images, you will be limited to searching the metadata only, and not the ...
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