Foxit PDF IFilter

Better PDF search results

Integrated with Microsoft search

High-performance indexing

Supports multi-vendor PDF

Search for PDF Documents with the Fastest PDF IFilter on the Market

Foxit's PDF IFilter provides super-fast indexing allowing users to index a large amount of PDF documents and then quickly find desired documents by specifying search criteria. Built on Microsoft®'s IFilter indexing interface, Foxit PDF IFilter extracts data from PDF documents and returns the index results to search engine software. It goes beyond Adobe® and indexes PDF content, titles, subjects, authors, keywords, PDF portfolios, annotations, text and data from forms (both standard PDF and XFA forms), bookmarks, attachments, create time/date, number of pages, and the names of the creating applications. This results in more precise search results. PDF documents can be rapidly searched on the desktop, a corporate server, or via the Web through keywords. These PDF documents can be files, email attachments, or database records.

Unique Multi-Core Support Delivers Fastest Search Available

PDF IFilter is designed to unleash the computing power of today's advanced server architectures to perform crawls at blazing speeds. Unlike other IFilter products, it takes full advantage of today's multi-core server architectures, is thread safe, and is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems - making it the absolutely fastest PDF IFilter available.

Reduces Customers Total Cost of Ownership

PDF IFilter's superior performance and scalability reduce customers' total cost of ownership through decreased costs of server hardware, data center floor space, power and cooling, and administration.

Compatible with Your Existing Environment

Foxit PDF IFilter supports multiple languages, including Asian languages and right-to-left languages, with ease. PDF IFilter supports indexing of ISO 32000-1 (which based upon PDF 1.7), PDF-A, and Adobe PDF files.

Plug-In for Search Engines Based on Microsoft's IFilter Index Interface

Foxit PDF IFilter is a robust implementation of Microsoft®'s IFilter indexing interface. It works with all search and retrieval products supporting the IFilter interface (for example, SharePoint® and SQL Server®). Such products use format-specific filter programs (called IFilters) for particular file formats (for example, HTML). Foxit PDF IFilter is such a program, aimed at PDF documents. The user interface for searching the documents may be Windows Explorer, a web browser, database frontend, query script, or a custom application.

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

•The search engine goes through a designated place (a file folder or a database), indexes all documents or newly modified documents (including PDF documents), and then stores indexing results in an internal database.

•Users specify keywords they would like to search, the search engine looks up the indexing results in the internal database, and then responding to users with all the documents that contain the specified keywords.

During step 1, the search engine itself doesn't understand the format of a PDF document. Therefore, it looks in the Windows registry for an appropriate PDF IFilter and finds the Foxit PDF IFilter. Since the PDF IFilter understands PDF format, it filters out embedded formatting, extracts text from the documents, and then returns the text back to the search engine.

 Foxit PDF IFilter functions in the following search engine environments:

•Microsoft SharePoint Server: SharePoint Server 2007, SharePoint Server 2010, SharePoint Server 2013, SharePoint Server 2016

•Microsoft Exchange Server: Exchange Server 2007, Exchange Server 2010

•Microsoft SQL Server: SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2010, SQL Server 2014

As an alternative to interactive searches, queries can also be submitted programmatically without any user interface on the following Windows operating systems:

•Windows 10

•Windows 8

•Windows 7

•Windows Vista

•Windows Server 2012

•Windows Server 2008

•Windows Server 2003

Optimized index capability

•Super-fast indexing allows users to search more documents in less time. Unique memory management supports multi-threading and takes full use of multi-core/multi-CPU servers.

Support indexing of ISO 32000 PDF, (PDF 1.7), PDF-A, PDF portfolios, and Adobe® PDF files.

•Support the PDF documents that you currently have.

Index PDF Documents

•Find PDF documents by indexing PDFs' content.

Index PDF Forms

•Find standard PDF and XFA forms by indexing PDF form text and data.

Index PDF attributes

•Find PDF documents by indexing PDFs' titles, authors, subjects, keywords, etc.

Index PDF annotations, bookmarks and attachments

•Find PDF documents by indexing annotation, bookmark and attachment information.

Configuration settings and logging support

•Enhance the user experience and notify developers should an error occur.

A 64-bit version

•Increased performance - takes advantage of leading server architectures.

Multi-language support - including right-to-left languages

•Support your worldwide user base.

Compatible with Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, Windows Indexing Server

•Compatible with your existing environment.