Crawling of PDF document from SharePoint search

I had issue while crawling of our SharePoint sites, I was getting error for the outlook message file in which there were embedded PDF document.

Errors which I was getting into crawl log:
1. The filtering process could not be initialized. Verify that the file extension is a known type and is correct
2. Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.

I have found on the internet that I have to install extra filter into server which will search and crawl for PDF files, there are 2 free filters available. One is from Adobe Ifilter 6.0 and one from Foxit Filter.

I tried to play with both filter but I was getting error into PDF and message file, I know, I was missing in some little configuration and installation of something.

At the last, I have found one very good and important link, as per that link, Adobe has not created any separate iFilter for PDF file types after Adobe Reader 7 version.

So they suggested us to installed Adobe Reader 8 or reader 9 version into our server, because after reader 7, Adobe package iFilter functionality into same software as plugs-in.

So after doing configuration from below links, I got the success, now I am able to crawl message file and PDF documents from the SharePoint sites.

MAIN IMPORTANT LINK:

http://nhmn.com/blogs/pointedman/PointedPost/08-05-21/How_to_Correctly_Configure_pdf_i-Filter_for_SharePoint_2007.aspx?ReturnURL=%2fblogs%2fpointedman%2fPointedPost%2f08-05-02%2fSharePoint_SSPScopeDeploy_for_MOSS_launched.aspx&BlogTagID=7249c096-182f-4abb-9420-ea7a21659377

Good Reference Links.

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2611&promoid=DNRLI (all about Adobe PDF IFilter v6.0) 

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=1&platform=Windows (Different products from Adobe)

http://blog.tylerholmes.com/2008/04/walkthrough-installing-adobe-v6-pdf.html ( How to install Adobe filter)

http://downloads.fuxinsoftware.com.cn/pub/foxit/manual/enu/FoxitPDFIFilter10forMOSS_manual.pdf (Manual for Foxit Filter)

How to add new managed property and customize advanced search page

We can customize search and advanced search page, by adding properties to it, generally all columns which we created into site comes in crawl properties when we do FULL CRAWL of the SSP. So then after we have to create new managed properties from going to SSP->Search Settings, we have to mapped crawl properties to manage properties and we can use those all managed properties into customization of advanced search page by adding “Properties”  into it.

You can find all these stuff from below links

http://jopx.blogspot.com/2006/08/add-document-properties-to-advanced.html

http://www.mosssearch.com/searchcolumn.html

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/sharepoint/MOSS_Advanced_Search.aspx

How to add property into advance result page

MOSS Faceted Search

From last some time, I am working in Search Functionality in SharePoint, we have installed “Search 2.5” into our server, and it gives us more ready to use web part functionality like search facets, caching, stemming and many more.

You can download faceted search 2.5 from codeplex by below link.

http://www.codeplex.com/FacetedSearch

We have also installed SharePoint Infrastructure Upgrade patch, it includes Federated Search like we can easily view and capture our search data from SharePoint SSP Screen.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/07/15/announcing-availability-of-infrastructure-updates.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/enterprisesearch/archive/2008/07/15/announcing-availability-of-infrastructure-updates.aspx

Till now, I did all things from SharePoint GUI only, not SharePoint Search object model, it has also many search library through which we can code our own specific search functionality, through SharePoint GUI, we can also customize functionality by changing respective web part configuration XML file.

I will give you updates regarding same on regular basis.