How to install PDF iFilter on Sharepoint 2010 step by step?

How to install PDF iFilter on Sharepoint 2010 step by step?

  7/31/2013 04:09:00 AM    Yogesh Sharma

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Installation of PDF iFilter on SharePoint 2010

Step 1. Download Adobe PDF iFilter 9 for 64-bit platforms from here http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025

Step 2. Install it on all SharePoint servers 2010.

Step 3. Download PDF icon file from pdf16.gif (http://www.mossgurus.com/adnan/Documents/pdf16.gif) and copy at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\IMAGES\.

Step 4. Add the following entry in docIcon.xml file, which can be found at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\XML.

<Mapping Key="pdf" Value="pdf16.gif" /> 

Step 5. Add PDF file type on the Manage File Type page under Search Service Application.

Step 6. Open registry by executing regedit on the Start --> Run.
             Navigate to the following location:
\\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\14.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension       

Step 7. Right-click Extension, a menu will appear.

Click New--> Key to create a new key for .pdf. See screen shot below:

Step 8. Step 8. Enter .pdf and save key.

Step 9.  Now add the following GUID in the default value as shown in the figure below.
{E8978DA6-047F-4E3D-9C78-CDBE46041603}

Step 10. If you are configuring SharePoint Server 2010, then restart Search service by executing the following command on the command line:
net stop osearch
net start osearch

Step 11. Now login on to Search Server 2010, then restart the SharePoint Server Search 14service as shown in the figure below:

Step 12. Reboot the all SharePoint servers.

Step 13. Run a full crawl.