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If you want to install Adobes PDF iFilter 9 for 64-bit platforms you can find the iFilter itself as well as manuals describing the configuration steps here: Adobe PDF iFilter 9 for 64-bit platforms.

In the middle of the page you can download the PDFiFilter64installer.zip and at the bottom of the page there are manuals for SharePoint 2007, Exchange Server 2007 and SQL Server 2005.

Step 1 – Installing Adobe PDF iFilter 9 for 64-bit platforms

Download the PDFiFilter64installer.zip and run the PDFFilter64installer.msi.

Successful installation of Adobe PDF iFilter 9

Click through the wizard and select a folder for installation.

Step 2 – Adding the PDF extensions to the Shared Services Provider Search

After installing the Adobe PDF iFilter 9 you need to add the PDF extension to the Shared Services Provider Search which is not done by the install witard. You don’t need to edit the registry to create this extension.

Adding the pdf file extension to the Shared Services Provider Adding the pdf file extension to the Shared Services Provider and clicking ok

After  adding the extension using Central Administration the registry key is automatically created.

Step 3 – Verifying installation

Please open regedit to verify that the things you did work:

1. Click Start > Run and open “regedit”

2. Open the key \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OfficeServer\12.0\Search\
Applications\{siteGUID}\Gather\Portal_Content\Extensions\ExtensionList

3. Verify that there is a “string value” with pdf as its “value data”. This was created during installation of the Adobe PDF iFilter 9. If this is missing create it.

The result looks like this:

Verify registry entries for pdf extension part 1

4. Open the key \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OfficeServer\12.0\Search\Setup\Filters\.pdf

5. Verify the values shown in the picture below. This was created during installation of the Adobe PDF iFilter 9.

Verify registry entries for pdf extension part 2

6. Open the key \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OfficeServer\12.0\Search\
ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension\.pdf

7. Verify that there is a “REG_MULTI_SZ” with a value of “{E8978DA6-047F-4E3D-9C78-CDBE46041603}”. In my case I had to change the value to the correct one.

Verify registry entries for pdf extension part 3

Step 4 – Restart services

Restart the following services:

net stop osearch

net start osearch

iisreset

Step 5 – PDF icon (optional)

Installing Adobe PDF iFilter 9 doesn’t install an icon for the pdf file extension so you have to do it by yourself. Download or create an icon of your choice (icpdf.gif) and copy it to the following folder:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\TEMPLATE\IMAGES

Edit the docicon.xml and add the following mapping:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\TEMPLATE\XML

<Mapping Key="pdf" Value="icpdf.gif">

Done! Now you have successfully installed the iFilter and after a full crawl (!) you can search within pdf files. If you have crawled a pdf file before and do an incremental crawl the content of the file won’t be crawled.



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Comments (6) -

12/3/2009 8:24:15 PM #

According the the KB article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927675 on MS site the GUID value in step 3 should be 4C904448-74A9-11D0-AF6E-00C04FD8DC02 and not what you suggest (E8978DA6-047F-4E3D-9C78-CDBE46041603).  Can you explain why we need to use the one you suggest and not the one on MS site.

Jagjit Assi United States Reply

12/6/2009 8:36:30 PM #

Hi Jagjit Assi,

I don't know why the GUID is different, I can only guess:

-The iFilter mentioned in the KB article does not support 64bit...
-There is a difference between WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007...
-The GUID was changed...

I have seen the GUID mentioned in the article in different 64bit MOSS 2007 environments.

Hope this helps
Andreas

Andreas Glaser Switzerland Reply

12/17/2009 9:25:57 PM #

This article does not work for WSS. Why is this so hard to accomplish?

SharePoint and Adobe are very frustrating products that do not work together very well at all.

kid United States Reply

10/18/2010 4:23:35 PM #

It works for WSS changing registry paths. In WSS all registry settings are stored in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\ instead of \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OfficeServer.

dankotron Spain Reply

10/24/2010 6:02:18 PM #

Cool thx for the info...

Andreas Glaser Switzerland Reply

5/20/2010 1:21:14 AM #

Hi All,
I have published an article at http://www.mossgurus.com/adnan/default.aspx explaining How to Install and configure PDF iFilter (64 bit) for SharePoint Server 2010 or Search Server 2010 Express with screen shots of each important steps.
I do hope that you will find this article useful. Please leave your comments.
Thanks
Adnan Ahmed
Senior MS Solutions Consultant
Owner: www.mossgurus.com
  

Adnan Ahmed Ireland Reply

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