Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Making Text from PDF Files Searchable from the “Start Search” Text Box

This is in reference to an earlier post here on installing iFilter to make more filetypes searchable in Windows.

Supposedly, from the Adobe website: “Adobe currently bundles a 32-bit PDF iFilter with Adobe Acrobat® 9 as well as free Adobe Reader® 9 software.”  I have a 64-bit Windows 7 machine that has Adobe Acrobat 9 installed, but the iFilter was not setup. The iFilter works after I install Adobe PDF iFilter 9.

The Adobe setup file can be downloaded here: https://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025 .