Search PDF / DOC / TXT or other File Type

Is there anyway to have MODx, Index documents you have stored in your system. I want to be able to search through .PDF’s or .DOC’s and return them as part of my search results.

Thanks,

Jason

not sure

there will be possibly a need to make a php code to find a file , open it and preg match it’s content

Let me know

an suggestions to this sort of functionality? A client has just asked the same thing (i.e. Google indexes the pdf/doc content, but are confused as to why it doesnt come up in MODx search)

If you make a listing on a resource/document of [for example] your pdf’s with a description
this can be found by AS. And the link can be extracted out in the search result!

Quote from: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,47889.msg280944.html#msg280944

Searching through pdf files is a whole different ballgame; your script has to be able to open and read pdf files which required a special library.

Ahh okay. So currently there’s no script out there for MODx that scans the assets folder for doc/pdf/txt files and indexes their contents. The only way is to add a PDF as a resource.

You could use a Google Custom Search Engine.
Upside is it reads/searches the contents of .pdf files.
Downside is that if you want to remove the adverts you pay $100.

Quote from: bunk58 at Jul 06, 2010, 08:57 AM

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Downside is that if you want to remove the adverts you pay $100.

Another downside would be that the documents need to be publicly accessible. If you want to exclude search engines in a private intraweb environment you need your own server to parse and index.