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MS Office 2010 Filter Pack released !

Deb Haldar — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:58:57 GMT

I’m pleased to announce that Microsoft Filter Pack, a single point-of-distribution for Office 2010 Ifilters is now available for download from the following link : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5CD4DCD7-D3E6-4970-875E...(read more)

Displaying PDF icons in search results

Deb Haldar — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:40:00 GMT

I received some questions today on how to display the pdf icons in search results. After you can index pdf documents (installing the pdf ifilter, bouncing the search service and all that good stuff), please use the instructions on the blog given below...(read more)

Adobe releases a 64-bit IFilter

Deb Haldar — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:01:00 GMT

Adobe has finally released a true 64 bit version of the pdf ifilter. Adobe has successfully tested the filter on the following platforms : Environment Operating System Application Desktop Windows XP x64 SP2 * Windows...(read more)

Errata for Filter Pack KB .

Deb Haldar — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:33:00 GMT

This correction applies to both Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Search Server 2008. 1.In step 2, the correct registry key to set the CLSID of the filter is : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\12.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon...(read more)

MS Filter Pack released !

Deb Haldar — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:08:00 GMT

I'm pleased to announce that after months of blood, sweat and toil, the MS Filter Pack is finally available !!! The package can be downloaded from : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=60C92A37-719C-4077-B5C6-CAC34F4227CC&displaylang...(read more)

FOXIT vs. Adobe PDF IFilter [ 32-bit only ]

Deb Haldar — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:37:00 GMT

Sometimes back I had the chance to run a performance and international sufficiency analysis on the Adobe and FOXIT ifilters for some of our customers. The following report is now made available for a broader audience. PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF 32...(read more)

64-bit support for Adobe PDF IFilter finally available.

Deb Haldar — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:27:00 GMT

Finally Adobe has come up with an interim solution to address the non-availability of a 64 bit ifilter. Now one can use the 32-bit Adobe IFilter on 64-bit platforms after installing a DCOM addin from Adobe. The installation instructions can be found on...(read more)

DWG (Autocad) Filter is now available.

Deb Haldar — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:05:00 GMT

I'm pleased to announce that after a lot of trails and tribulations, the DWG IFilter is finally ready. Those who have been following the posts by Marco and myself under Chronicles of an IFilter development must be curious to know as to what the end result...(read more)

Long awaited 64-bit PDF IFilter finally available.

Deb Haldar — Thu, 10 May 2007 04:54:00 GMT

Finally we have a 64 bit PDF IFilter - surprisingly the solution is not from Adobe or Microsoft, but from a company called Foxit Software.The IFilter is compatiable with the following Microsoft products: Windows Indexing Service, MSN Desktop Search, Internet...(read more)

Indexing pdf documents with Adobe Reader v.8 and MOSS 2007

Deb Haldar — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:12:00 GMT

The version 8 of the adobe reader has some significant architectural changes (for the better of course) including an inbuilt IFilter to index PDF documents. Previously the adobe IFilter was available as a seperate download. This new change in architecture...(read more)

Indexing XPS documents with MOSS 2007

Deb Haldar — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:26:00 GMT

With the XML Paper Specification (XPS) document format gaining popularity, many are wondering how to integrate MOSS 2007 to index and search XPS documents. Here's a quick recipe to configure your index server to crawl and catalog tokens in XPS documents...(read more)

Insights into MS IFilter Testing Strategy.

Deb Haldar — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 23:07:00 GMT

Ever since I started dealing with filters, I've seen numerous questions regarding "What does the proper validation of an IFilter mean? What tests should we execute and how to excute them?" . Hence, its only appropriate that we publish a document detailing...(read more)

Debugging IFilters with WDS 3.0 and Windows Vista.

Deb Haldar — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:59:00 GMT

With the public release of Vista a week back, soon developers will be wondering how to write and debug IFilters in the vista environment. Here's a quick and easy way, in addition to the one stated by Marco under Chronicles of an IFilter development -...(read more)

Debugging IFilters in MOSS/WSS.

Deb Haldar — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:56:00 GMT

The steps we use to debug searchfilters with MOSS/ WSS are listed below: 1. Disable filter host termination, add Assert to suspend filter host when it starts: MOSS [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\12.0\Search\Global\Gathering...(read more)

Co-existence of 32 bit and 64 bit IFilter binaries in MS Search Products.

Deb Haldar — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:57:00 GMT

Over the last few months we've seen numerous questions from consultants and customers alike on: 1. Why are certain IFilter binaries not available in BOTH 32 bit and 64 bit incarnations? 95% of the questions in this category pointed to the unavailability...(read more)

Chronicles of an IFilter development - inception to deployment.

Deb Haldar — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 12:19:00 GMT

I often asked myself the question - How do independent vendors develop IFilters for MS Search Products and what are the challanges they face? It occurred to me that if I could somehow document the development lifecycle of an IFilter developed by someone...(read more)

Extending SQL Server 2005 full text search with custom IFilters and IWordBreakers.

Deb Haldar — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 08:35:00 GMT

Shajan, one of our development leads, wrote this wonderful article about integrating custom IFilters and IWordBreakers to extend SQL Server Full-Text search. The article describes authoring and installing Filters and Wordbreakers for SQL Server 2005....(read more)

Recent IFilter implementation and deployment questions.

Deb Haldar — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:14:00 GMT

Please post your questions and comments about using, implemnting and deploying IFilters to work with Microsoft Search Products here. If deemed necessary, the discussion topics of broader interest will be sorted into seperate threads....(read more)

Breaking the monolithic Filter dll.

Deb Haldar — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 13:26:00 GMT

An issue came up recently where the architecture of one of our filters had to be changed. The change involved making the filter dll dependent on a few other dlls dropped during the installation process. As with all revolutionary changes, the Search...(read more)

Registering third party IFilters in WSS/MOSS 2007

Deb Haldar — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:18:00 GMT

STEP 1: COM REGISTRATION 1.Add Registry key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\<ComClassIdOfTheIFIlter\InprocServer32 Default : <IFIlterDllPath> ThreadingModel : Both STEP 2 : REGISTER IFILTER WITH OS There are 4 steps to registering the filter...(read more)

Welcome !

Deb Haldar — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:41:00 GMT

Welcome to Filter Central ! Here you'll find resources, examples and discussions pertaining to the IFilter COM interface, the de facto standard for creating document filters to work with Windows Indexing service, Windows Desktop Search and Microsoft Sharepoint...(read more)