Foxit PDF IFilter v1.0 is released now!

Foxit PDF IFilter is designed to help users to index a large amount of PDF documents and then quickly find text within these documents. The PDF documents can be files, email attachments or database records.
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Installation Instructions

Foxit PDF IFilter has two versions respectively for 32-bit Windows and x64 Windows. You can choose one of them to install into your machine according to your system requirements.

Here, we take Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server for example:

To install Foxit PDF IFilter 1.0 with Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server, please do the following:

• 1. Please note that Microsoft Office SharePoint Server has been installed successfully.

• 2. Download Foxit PDF IFilter from Foxit Software Website onto the machine where you wish to install it.

• 3. Stop the IIS Admin service: Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrator Tools > Services > IIS Admin Service > Stop. Close window.

• 4. Run the Foxit PDF IFilter 1.0 Setup program to install the filter on the server.

• 5. Download PDF icon from http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/ifilter/pdficon.gif .

• 6. Copy the downloaded .GIF file to "Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\Template\Images".

• 7. Edit the file "Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\Template\Xml\DOCICON.XML":
  A. Right-click DOCICON.XML file > click Open With > select Notepad.
  B. Add an entry for the .pdf extension. For example, where ICPDF is the name of the .gif file:
  <Mapping Key="pdf" Value="icpdf.gif"/>

  
  C. On the File menu, click Save, and then quit Notepad.

• 8. Perform an iisreset:
  A. Click Start > Run > type "cmd" in the Open line > click OK > type "iisreset" at the command prompt > hit Enter.

  
  B. Close the window.

Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server can now index PDF files.

Note: For the installation instructions with other search engines, please refer to their respective user manuals (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/usermanuals/) for details.

Additional Notes

Foxit PDF IFilter has no user interface. Since Foxit PDF IFilter acts as a plug-in for various search engines, it is the search engine that is responsible for interpreting the returned text and then presenting the information to the user.

The installation package will unzip a language file called fpdfcjk.bin into the installation folder. This file will help you index PDF documents containing Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters.

Currently, we are testing Foxit IFilter for IA64 version. It will become available pretty soon.