I recently had to setup a Sharepoint 2010 Standard edition for a customer that required pdf search and found that Adobe PDF iFilter had to be installed. Later I found that this small tool can also be installed on Windows 7 to make searches of contents in PDF files which great! I store alot of information in PDF documents and it’s always been a hassle to name them as the name had to hold all the search information. Now I can just search for contents in a folder full of PDF.
You can download the Adobe PDF iFilter 9, which is free, from the following URL:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025
To install this please follow these simple steps:
Download and install the PDF iFilter.
Sett your system PATH environment variable to the “bin” folder of the “Ifilter” installation.
For example, from the “Control Panel\System\Advanced\Environment Variables” tab, append to PATH “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe PDF iFilter 9 for 64-bit platforms\bin\” and then restart the computer.
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When searching for text and the search window returns nothing simply click “File Contents” and it will start searching through the files including PDF.
Good luck!
