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By PlateSpinner, April 29, 2008 8:33 am

This is something that tripped me up on a client-site recently.  I installed Adobe’s PDFs IFilter onto a MOSS farm so that PDFs could be crawled.  A week later I came back to check on it and there were consistently 400+ error items in the crawl; all PDF docs.

It took me a while to figure out what went wrong but I had mistakenly installed version 5 of Adobe’s PDF IFilter when I needed to use version 6.  I think this happened because, currently, the Microsoft KB article about crawling PDFs in WSS 3 and MOSS points to version 5.

Adobe’s instructions to install the IFilter v6.0 are very vague.  Apparently this is because they didn’t want to make specific instructions for every search engine out there.  Here is a handy blog post that explains pretty well how to install it on MOSS.

PS:  The newest version of the Adobe IFilter is version 8 and it will have support for 64-bit platforms. Unfortunately, it’s still only in prerelease.  You can find more information about it and download the prerelease version from Adobe Labs.