Searching custom metadata in PDFs

Here is a good discussion thread about it: http://sharepointsearch.com/cs/forums/t/464.aspx

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According to Foxit Tech support, their iFilter is currently not capable of emitting custom metadata. I suspect that Adobe's iFilter does not support this feature either; however I have not contacted them to find out.

There is an iFilter, PDF+ iFilter, from ifltershop.com that DOES support emitting custom XMP data. They have directions in their help/readme file to make it work.

"In order to set up PDF+ IFilter to index custom XMP schema you will need to add information about this schema to the IFilter registry settings as described in "Support for custom XMP schemas" section of README file. "

Those directions in that section were not as clear as I would like, But no fear, they were willing to take a sample PDF from me and create the REG file required. Still waiting on getting that back to test, but it looks promising,

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Published 02 August 2007 09:27 AM by notorioustech

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# Bruce28277 said on 10 August, 2007 04:18 PM

I would like to complete this thread. With excellent help from the folks at IFiltershop, I was able to get PDF+ from IFiltershop to expose custom metadata to MOSS Search. I was further able to configure the appropriate mapped properties and configure an Advanced Search Page with the metadata populated in the drop down Property Picker...Patrick Tisseghem has an excellent video on exactly how to accomplish the creation of the custom mapped properties and then customize the search pages in MOSS, see it here:

wm.microsoft.com/.../moss2007creatingexposingmanagedproperties.wmv

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