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MS Office 2010 Filter Pack released !

I’m pleased to announce that Microsoft Filter Pack, a single point-of-distribution for Office...

Date: 06/17/2010

Displaying PDF icons in search results

I received some questions today on how to display the pdf icons in search results. After you can...

Date: 12/17/2008

Adobe releases a 64-bit IFilter

Adobe has finally released a true 64 bit version of the pdf ifilter. Adobe has successfully tested...

Date: 12/10/2008

Errata for Filter Pack KB .

This correction applies to both Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Search Server 2008. 1.In step 2,...

Date: 01/04/2008

MS Filter Pack released !

I'm pleased to announce that after months of blood, sweat and toil, the MS Filter Pack is finally...

Date: 12/18/2007

FOXIT vs. Adobe PDF IFilter [ 32-bit only ]

Sometimes back I had the chance to run a performance and international sufficiency analysis on the...

Date: 11/14/2007

64-bit support for Adobe PDF IFilter finally available.

Finally Adobe has come up with an interim solution to address the non-availability of a 64 bit...

Date: 11/14/2007

DWG (Autocad) Filter is now available.

I'm pleased to announce that after a lot of trails and tribulations, the DWG IFilter is finally...

Date: 06/27/2007

Long awaited 64-bit PDF IFilter finally available.

Finally we have a 64 bit PDF IFilter - surprisingly the solution is not from Adobe or Microsoft, but...

Date: 05/09/2007

Indexing pdf documents with Adobe Reader v.8 and MOSS 2007

The version 8 of the adobe reader has some significant architectural changes (for the better of...

Date: 03/29/2007

Indexing XPS documents with MOSS 2007

With the XML Paper Specification (XPS) document format gaining popularity, many are wondering how to...

Date: 03/24/2007

Insights into MS IFilter Testing Strategy.

Ever since I started dealing with filters, I've seen numerous questions regarding "What does the...

Date: 02/08/2007

Debugging IFilters with WDS 3.0 and Windows Vista.

With the public release of Vista a week back, soon developers will be wondering how to write and...

Date: 02/05/2007

Debugging IFilters in MOSS/WSS.

The steps we use to debug searchfilters with MOSS/ WSS are listed below: 1. Disable filter host...

Date: 02/05/2007

Co-existence of 32 bit and 64 bit IFilter binaries in MS Search Products.

Over the last few months we've seen numerous questions from consultants and customers alike on: 1....

Date: 01/08/2007

Chronicles of an IFilter development - inception to deployment.

I often asked myself the question - How do independent vendors develop IFilters for MS Search...

Date: 12/25/2006

Extending SQL Server 2005 full text search with custom IFilters and IWordBreakers.

Shajan, one of our development leads, wrote this wonderful article about integrating custom IFilters...

Date: 12/24/2006

Recent IFilter implementation and deployment questions.

Please post your questions and comments about using, implemnting and deploying IFilters to work with...

Date: 11/29/2006

Breaking the monolithic Filter dll.

An issue came up recently where the architecture of one of our filters had to be changed. The change...

Date: 11/20/2006

Registering third party IFilters in WSS/MOSS 2007

STEP 1: COM REGISTRATION 1.Add Registry...