MS Filter Pack released !

re: MS Filter Pack released !

Above MCSE — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:29:56 GMT

The 32bit Office 2010 Filter Packs will not install on Windows 7 x64. This is a problem for 32bit software that needs an IFilter interface to access the plain text for .docx files and others. Since the default Windows 7 x64 supports 32/64 for .doc files, why is this a problem now?

re: MS Filter Pack released !

VV — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:15:17 GMT

On Windows Server 2008 (64-bit), I am failing to create an instance of the Office 2007 Filter for Office Documents (CoCreateInstance against offfiltx.dll)

After reading the above posts, I tried the FiltDump.exe (downloaded the Windows Search 3.X SDK) against a Word 2007 document (.docx) and got the following error:

Error 0x80030002 loading IFilter

Is there anything else I need to do/install to get the filtdump.exe to work?

Could someone shed some light here?

Thanking you in advance.

Best Regards,

re: MS Filter Pack released !

wa — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:30:53 GMT

same problem here...cannot read .docx files

re: MS Filter Pack released !

nabeel — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:44:08 GMT

Yes I Installed the IFilter and follow the instruction in two operating systems Windows 7 and Windows Vista but no luck to find content in .docx or any office 2007 files, the FTS is working fine with pdf,txt,and office 2003 files.

re: MS Filter Pack released !

Anshul — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:57:30 GMT

Hi i am unable to search/filter some content in my .xlsx file.

I had latest version of offfiltx dll registered with me.

re: MS Filter Pack released !

stabilo — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:17:21 GMT

I'm running into similar problems to the last few posters with .docx not being indexed by SQL Server 2005 FullText Search.

I'm running Vista Enterprise SP1.

I installed the Microsoft Filter Pack from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=60C92A37-719C-4077-B5C6-CAC34F4227CC&displaylang=en

I then registered it with SQL Server 2005 to work with Full Text Search, using these instructions:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;945934

I did the same with the PDF IFilter from Adobe.

The end result is that the Office 2007 file formats such as .docx are not indexed by FTS. But no such problem with PDF files!

If I run the query:

select document_type, path from sys.fulltext_document_types where document_type = '.docx'

I get:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Filters\offfiltx.dll

So any ideas why this should continue to be failing? Reading this thread and seeing the same problem being over a year ago with arguably no solution does not seem very promising.

re: MS Filter Pack released !

jteitel — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:33:43 GMT

Nabeel,

Could you give some more details as to your problem? I assume you've installed the Filter Pack. Have you followed the instructions for registering the filters with SQL Search? They can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;945934

re: MS Filter Pack released !

nabeel — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:19:01 GMT

I face the same problem with SQL Server 2008 full text search with .docx, I can't find text inside those files, it works for .doc my operation system is windows vista 64, any fix to this problem.

Thanks,

Nabeel.

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Jim — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:45:27 GMT

I guess I should briefly describe what I have found to close loose ends.

The IFilter loaded on Vista may very well work OK with MS applications that are matched for the OS and platform (32/64). My issue surfaces when I attempt to process a DOCX file from a 32 bit application on a 64 bit OS. My limited understanding of this (I mean limited) is that when the new IFilters (which handle DOCX and other X files) are installed, the system register entries are not setup to handle them when the 32 bit to 64 bit crossover lookup takes place. The cross links are missing in the registry.

I would like to thank Josh of MS for his very informative and skilled help in resolving this situation. And Deb for hanging in and supporting this blog.

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Jim — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:05:40 GMT

Deb, More info -

The source of these programs were from a non Vista system (XP 32 bit). I ran them on my 64 bit Vista system.

I ran FiltDump on a docx file. The result is: "Error 0x80004005 loading IFilter"

I ran FiltReg and it did NOT list .docx at all. It did list .doc files as processed by "Microsoft Office Filter (%systemroot%\system32\OffFilt.dll)".

Again,

Thanks