I am passing the search query in to search.asmx to get the search value.
Through web services I am retrieving the search result. Search result will return document path for .txt files and image. This path used to open the file directly.
txt file: "http://server:24669/jap/ww.txt- It will open the file.
PDF File:"http://server:100/456efg/Forms/DispForm.aspx?ID=3&RootFolder=/456efg"- It will show PDF properties or parent folder.
So I need to Get the Url to open the PDF doc. "ows_EncodedAbsUrl" column have the document URL but it’s not retrievable in search result. Is there any way to solve the issue?
If you add a PDF iFilter to your SharePoint environment, PDF files will no longer be treated as list items (thus the property view link).
Of course Adobe post the instructions for this as a PDF.
This change will also start indexing the text of your PDF documents so they will be more searchable. Be aware that if a percentage of the PDF documents size will be added to your search storage costs, so plan ahead.
This is a cure for the symptom, I do not know if there are other ways to do this.
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I am not sure if i am going to be able to describe this right but ill give it a go.
We are working on implementing Azure search. At the core level we have searchable PDF documents that we want the text of them added to the index so all of them are searchable.
The initial thought was to just submit that document to the index via the add document rest api. The thinking was that this would be the most simple and quickest path
to getting the text of that document into the index. We also considered using and indexer and just having all the Searchable PDF docs in a blob store and have the indexer
crawl those every 10-15 mins.
We also looked into (based on a recommendation) submitting a standalone JSON file with the text from the PDF in it. Submitting that to the index either via the same add document API or
placing that file in a blob store. Within the JSON document we would need to have document identifiers that provide the index with the location of the PDF so that when that text is found
via search, we can make that clickable and as a result open the PDF.
It seems to me that pushing in the json file with the document add api. Indexing that and when it is part of a search we can use the doc id to link back to it and open it.
For those of you that have used Azure search. How did you implement?
If you're totally sure that only pdf will live on this particular index, then the first approach is faster to implement, since the native indexer can be used for extract the content of the pdf document as well to push it to the index.
Both approaches will work, but for the second one, you would need to extract the pdf yourself using an external tool.
I am trying to search for keywords contained in the metadata of a PDF doc. I am unsure if this is possible. Any guidance would be much appreciated!
Here is an example of the keywords/tags in a PDF I am referring to
I know it is possible to add fields to the search index, but am unsure how to map it. I have tried the following but it did not work.
Here is how the keywords metadata would work -
Adding a keywords (metadata) to the pdf file would not work as only selected custom metadata tags are supported for pdf.
Refer this document - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-howto-indexing-azure-blob-storage
A work around to this problem could be add metadata tag to the pdf file blob itself.
After we create a index in azure search for ("All Metadata"/Storage Metadata) this key starts appearing under the list of field names to select(search/retrieve/filter etc.).
And finally we can search on the custom keywords now.
The Keywords tag is not one of the ones we support through the metadata_ format (the ones that are, are listed here). If you add a field to the index called "Keywords", does it extract it? Also, I if you look at the properties of the PDF in something like Azure Storage Explorer, I assume this keyword metadata is still there and it is called "Keywords". If not, this might give some additional insight.
I managed to Search the contents of text files using custom search as described in the link below: https://docs.kentico.com/k8/custom-development/miscellaneous-custom-development-tasks/smart-search-api/creating-custom-smart-search-indexes
But it is not able to search in the filename. For example, if my search text is "Roman", the file "RomanRaj.txt" should show up in the results. Please help.
Try to add file name to your search index by index content customization. See the documentation on this topic.
I'd suggest NOT creating a custom smart search index but look at using attachments and searching those. Out of the box, Kentico will allow you to search attachments and their contents without writing any code.
I have a Content Source which crawls a network folder containing Word, PowerPoint and PDF documents. I have in addition a Result Source based directly on this content source and a Search Results web part which uses the Result Source as its query. If I search for “Digital Cameras” the first result is a PowerPoint document entitled “Digital Cameras: Thriving Amidst a Declining Market.” However, there is a PDF file also in the directory with the exact same title, but this file does not appear unless I filter by PDF Result Type, at which point it appears at the top of the list. In fact, with Result Type set to All, I cannot see the PDF version of the file even if I click through all the pages of the initial search.
I thought it might be considered a duplicate but I have “Show View Duplicates” checked and “Trim Duplicates” set to false. The pop-out next to the initial search item does not show a duplicate.
How do I get the PDF document to appear in the basic search next to the PowerPoint document with the same title?
In your search center (which may or may not be your main site or a specific subsite designated through Central Admin), go to site settings and then Search Result Types and there should be a list of the result types included in your default search.
Provided you are crawling the PDFs in your search crawl (Central Admin > go to your Search Service > Crawling > File Types) , and they have content that can be indexed (namely text in the documents and title and not just images inside the PDF), you should be seeing it then.
OK, I have added the question at the other place:
https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/137512/does-sharepoint-2013-file-search-favour-microsoft-documents-over-pdfs
Graham, thanks I checked the result types and the crawling types and all looks OK. Plus, if the item was not being crawled it would not show up in the search even with the filtering.
How do I search in MS Access (ver 2010) for data in files attached to records? If I do a "Find" and specify text I KNOW is in an attached txt file to a particular record, there are no hits. While if I have the same data in a Text Field or Memo field, Access finds it. I understood from one of the Access help screens I found that it is possible to search attachments from within Access, but I have not been able to do this yet.
BTW, I did try using the query tool and searching for text I knew was in the attachment, but it was not successful, although it did find the same text within a memo field in another record.
Thx,
jmb
I'm fairly certain that there is no mechanism in Access to find records based on text within a file attachment. A bit of web searching found an earlier question here and the responses seem to agree that there isn't.
One reference from Microsoft here says
By using attachments, you open documents and other non-image files in their parent programs, so from within Access, you can search and edit those files.
but I think that statement could be misinterpreted. I believe what they meant to say was that
"...from within Access you can open an attachment in its parent program and then work on it as usual (e.g., edit it, search it, print it, and so on)."
You can use file system object, open the file as string and search sequentially. That's as close as you'll get