Index Adobe PDF Documents with Sharepoint 2010

Step one: Download the PDF iFilter currently in version 9.0 from Adobe's website
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025&PID=4172469

Run the installation on all query servers (web front ends)

Launch Central Administration | Application Management | Manage Service Applications



Select your Search Service Application



Select File Types under Crawling in the left navigation



Select New File Type, Enter pdf for the file extension and select OK

Using Open a command prompt and type Regedit, navigate to

\\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\14.0\Search\Setup\Filters

Right-click the Filters folder and select New Key. Enter “.pdf” for the key value.

Add the following values to this key:

<String Value> Extension = pdf

<DWORD 32Bit> FileTypeBucket = 1

<String Value> MimeTypes = application/pdf

 The key should look like:

Navigate to: \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\14.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension

Right-click the Filters  folder and select New Key. Enter “.pdf” for the key value.

Set the “default” value to {E8978DA6-047F-4E3D-9C78-CDBE46041603}

 The key should look like:

You can now add an image to be used for the icon for PDF documents:

Add an image (typically gif or png, use Google images to find an example) for the PDF icon to the folder:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\IMAGES

Open the file docicon.xml from the location:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\XML

Add a link to map the pdf extension to the image by adding a link like the following to the ByExtension element:

                 <Mapping Key=”pdf” Value=”pdf_icon.gif” OpenControl=”"/>

Finally, issue an IISReset and restart the Windows services “SharePoint Foundation Search V4” and “SharePoint Server Search”.

Your PDF documents will now be indexed on the next crawl.