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The Need for PDF Search ............................................................................................................... 3
Search and Index Overview ............................................................................................................ 3IFilter Architecture............................................................................................................................ 4
Performance and Scalability Are Essential ..................................................................................... 6Search for PDF Documents with the Fastest PDF IFilter on the Market ......................................... 6
Get More Precise PDF Search Results ........................................................................................... 7
Economic Benefits ........................................................................................................................... 7Foxit PDF IFilter – Server Environment Requirements ................................................................... 8Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................... 8Contact Us ..................................................................................................................................... 102

The Need for PDF Search
PDF has become the overwhelming file format of choice for storing documents on the cloud since
it is a robust and open standard for document display and it works with just about any application,
hardware device, and operating system. Whether you’re posting a document on the Internet orstoring important company documents in an archive, PDF has become a mission criticaltechnology for most organizations.

As a result, the growth in the number of PDF documents has exploded. There are numerous
times when users need to locate specific PDF files to comply with IT governance, legal concerns,
industry regulations, and more. With the tremendous number of PDF documents, finding the one
you need is like finding a needle in a haystack.

Search and Index Overview
Typically users utilize search technology to find the files they are looking for quickly and easily.
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Common search engine environments include Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft®

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Exchange Server, SQL Server, Windows Indexing Server, and FAST Search Server. The®

user interface for searching for these documents may be Windows Explorer , a web browser,
database front-end, query script, or a custom application.

A search engine usually works in two steps:

1) The search engine goes through a designated place (like a file folder), indexes alldocuments or newly modified documents, and then stores indexing results in an internal
database. Indexing is when search engines “crawl” through files to collect and store
content and property data (also called attributes) so when users perform a search, theperformance will be much faster.

2) Users specify search terms they would like to search, the search engine looks for thesearch terms in the indexing results in the internal database, and then responds to users
with all the documents that contain the specified search terms.

3During step 1, the search engine itself needs to understand the format of a document in order toindex it properly. Unfortunately, Microsoft server search software only supports Microsoft Office®

files formats and therefore cannot properly index PDF files.

IFilter Architecture
Luckily these Microsoft search engines support the IFilter architecture – an IFilter is a plugin thatallows search engines to index the contents of large numbers of different file formats. When anindex is started, the search engine will look in the registry to see if any IFilters exist on thatsystem. Installing a PDF IFilter allows search engines to index PDF files to provide accurate andefficient search of PDF documents and forms.

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DOC

TXT

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PPT…

IFilter Interface
Windows Desktop or SharePoint Search

Here is an example of how Foxit PDF IFilter – Server can provide better search results than just
Windows search alone. In the screen shot below, we search on “corp” in the search engine
located in the top right hand corner of Windows Explorer. The default windows search provides
no search results.

4After installing Foxit PDF IFilter – Server, we perform that same exact search in the same exact
file system and quickly get great search results from PDF files. Since the index can now
understand the PDF format, PDF files with “corp” in the content, tags, and authors can be quickly
displayed in the search results.

5Performance and Scalability Are Essential
Indexing a large amount of files can take a very long time and tie up valuable computing
resources, therefore indexing speed is essential. Today’s server systems come in 64-bit, multithreaded, multiple core architectures that will dramatically increase performance of software thathas been optimized for them. So, it’s important to have a PDF IFilter that takes advantage of thecomputing power that today’s systems provide.

Search for PDF Documents with the Fastest PDF IFilter on theMarket®

Foxit PDF IFilter – Server is a plugin that allows the Windows Indexing Service and the newer
Windows search technologies to index PDF file formats so that they become searchable. Built onMicrosoft IFilter indexing interface, Foxit PDF IFilter extracts PDF documents attributes andreturns the index results to search engine software on Microsoft Windows.

Foxit PDF IFilter - Server is designed to unleash the computing power of today’s advanced
architectures to perform indexes at blazing speeds. Unlike other IFilter products, it takes fulladvantage of today’s multi-core server architectures, is thread safe, and is available for both 32bit and 64-bit operating systems - making it the absolutely fastest PDF IFilter available. Foxit PDF
IFilter - Server extracts data from PDF documents and returns the index results to search enginesoftware. Since it supports ISO 32000-1 (which is based upon PDF 1.7), PDF-A, multiple®

languages (including right-to-left languages), and Adobe PDF files, it will work with all yourexisting PDF documents.

Independent tests show just how much faster the Foxit PDF IFilter - Server really is. Check out
this blog from Jie Li’s GeekWorld - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/opal/archive/2010/02/09/pdf-ifiltertest-with-sharepoint-2010.aspx

A summary of Microsoft’s performance tests is below. Microsoft’s tests show Foxit PDF IFilter –Server finishes the index in 13 minutes, where Adobe PDF IFilter took 8 hours and 29 minutes. Invery large server environments, other PDF IFilters can take days, certainly not fast enough for thespeed of business.

6Adobe PDF IFilter

Foxit PDF IFilter

22,559 PDF Files in 84 folders,

22,559 PDF Files in 84 folders,

15.7 GB total

15.7 GB total
13 minutes

8 hours, 29 minutes

Foxit PDF IFilter-Server
39 Times Faster than Adobe

Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/opal/archive/2010/02/09/pdf-ifilter-test-with-sharepoint2010.aspx

Get More Precise PDF Search Results
How many times have you performed searches and received so many search results that it took
forever to look at them all to find what you need? Foxit PDF IFilter – Server helps alleviate thatproblem by indexing PDF document 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. By
indexing on all these attributes, Foxit PDF IFilter – Server can support more focused searchterms to supply more precise search results.

Economic Benefits
Users will benefit from quick search performance, but the main reward is economic. Foxit PDF
IFilter - Server’s superior speed and scalability reduce customers’ total cost of ownership throughdecreased costs of:Server hardware7Data center floor spacePower and coolingServer administration

Foxit PDF IFilter – Server Environment Requirements
Foxit PDF IFilter – Server support the following environments:
Foxit PDF IFilter functions in the following search engine environments:-Microsoft SharePoint Server-

Microsoft Exchange Server-SQL Server-Windows Indexing Server-

FAST Search Server

As an alternative to interactive searches, queries can also be submitted programmatically without
any user interface on the following Windows operating systems:
Windows Server 2012

Windows 8Windows 7

Windows VistaWindows Server 2008

Windows Server 2003

Conclusion
For enterprises with a large amount of PDF documents, are in industries that require long term
document archival, or are in industries that have high information regulation requirements, Foxit
PDF IFilter – Server provides the ability to quickly find specific PDF documents from large filesystems.

By turning on the full power to today’s high performance server architectures, Foxit PDF IFilter Server offers the super-fast PDF indexing speed and maintains indexing accuracy. Users can use

8Foxit PDF IFilter - Server to index their PDF documents by content, titles, subjects, authors,
keywords, PDF portfolios, annotations, text and data from forms (both standard PDF and XFAforms), bookmarks, attachments, create time/date, number of pages and the names of thecreating applications. Foxit PDF IFilter – Server is seamlessly integrated with Microsoft searchengine so there is no additional training costs to users or additional platforms for IT to manage.

To see for yourself how Foxit PDF IFilter – Server can greatly improve your PDF searchcapabilities, try it free for 30 days. Foxit PDF IFilter – Server can be downloaded for a free 30-day
trial by clicking here.

9Contact Us
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