Foxit PDF IFilter v1.0 is released now!

Foxit PDF IFilter is designed to help users to index a large amount of PDF documents and then quickly find text within these documents. The PDF documents can be files, email attachments or database records.
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Overview

Foxit PDF IFilter is designed to help users to index a large amount of PDF documents and then quickly find text within these documents. The PDF documents can be files, email attachments or database records.

Foxit PDF IFilter supports PDF 1.7 specification and can be used in the following environments: Windows Indexing Service, MSN Desktop Search, Internet Information Server, SharePoint Portal Server, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), Site Server, Exchange Server, SQL Server and all other products based on Microsoft Search technology. Hereafter, we use term "search engine" to refer to these products.

Foxit PDF IFilter acts as a plug-in for full-text search engines. A search engine usually works in two steps:

Step 1, the search engine goes through a designated place, e.g. a file folder or a database, and indexes all documents or newly modified documents, including PDF documents, in the background and creates internal data to store indexing result.

Step 2, a user specifies some keywords he would like to search and the search engine answers the query immediately by looking up the indexing result and responds to the user with all the documents that contains the keywords.

During Step 1, the search engine itself doesn't understand format of a PDF document. Therefore, it looks in windows registry for an appropriate PDF IFilter and finds the Foxit PDF IFilter. Foxit PDF IFilter understands PDF format. It filters out embedded formatting and extracts text from the document and return text back to the search engine. Further information about IFilter specification can be found on the Microsoft Web site.

Key Benefits:

• Integrates with existing operating systems and tools within your company
• Provides an easy solution to search within PDF documents located on local computer, local network and intranet
• Greatly increases your ability to accurately locate information
• Much smaller and faster than IFilter offered by other vendors
• Support Chinese/Japanese/Korean PDF documents
• Supports native 64-bit code
• Supports multi-threading and takes full use of multiple-CPU in a server

Download

IFilter for 32-bit Windows Platform: Windows File Name: FoxitPDFIFilter.msi File Size: 2.14 MB Click to Download	IFilter for x64 Windows Platform: Windows File Name: FoxitPDFIFilter64bit.msi File Size: 2.54 MB Click to Download

Installation Instructions

Foxit PDF IFilter has two versions respectively for 32-bit Windows and x64 Windows. You can choose one of them to install into your machine according to your system requirements.

Here, we take Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server for example:

To install Foxit PDF IFilter 1.0 with Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server, please do the following:

• 1. Please note that Microsoft Office SharePoint Server has been installed successfully.

• 2. Download Foxit PDF IFilter from Foxit Software Website onto the machine where you wish to install it.

• 3. Stop the IIS Admin service: Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrator Tools > Services > IIS Admin Service > Stop. Close window.

• 4. Run the Foxit PDF IFilter 1.0 Setup program to install the filter on the server.

• 5. Download PDF icon from http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/ifilter/ICPDF.gif.

• 6. Copy the downloaded .GIF file to "Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\Template\Images".

• 7. Edit the file "Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\Template\Xml\DOCICON.XML":
  A. Right-click DOCICON.XML file > click Open With > select Notepad.
  B. Add an entry for the .pdf extension. For example, where ICPDF is the name of the .gif file:
  <Mapping Key="pdf" Value="icpdf.gif"/>

  
  C. On the File menu, click Save, and then quit Notepad.

• 8. Perform an iisreset:
  A. Click Start > Run > type "cmd" in the Open line > click OK > type "iisreset" at the command prompt > hit Enter.

  
  B. Close the window.

Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server can now index PDF files.

Note: For the installation instructions with other search engines, please refer to their respective user manuals (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/usermanuals/) for details.

Additional Notes

Foxit PDF IFilter has no user interface. Since Foxit PDF IFilter acts as a plug-in for various search engines, it is the search engine that is responsible for interpreting the returned text and then presenting the information to the user.

The installation package will unzip a language file called fpdfcjk.bin into the installation folder. This file will help you index PDF documents containing Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters.

Currently, we are testing Foxit IFilter for IA64 version. It will become available pretty soon.

Price Information

Foxit PDF IFilter can be used for free on desktop environment. However, users need to purchase licenses when they use Foxit PDF IFilter on server environments.

License cost for each server with up to two CPU cores is $329.99. Each additional CPU core costs $129.99. Please be aware that each dual-core CPU counts as two CPU cores and each quad CPU as four CPU cores. Each license covers both 32-bit and 64-bit IFilter versions.

As a promotion, we're pleased to offer 30% discount for the testing and development server based on the full price for production environment.

The following is a calculation example:

Total servers: two

One production server with four CPU cores:
$329.99 + $129.99*2=$589.97

One development/test server with six CPU cores:
$(329.99 + 129.99*4)*0.7=$594.96

Total amount: $1184.93

Click here to buy it now! If you still have questions, please contact sales@foxitsoftware.com for more information.