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Example, inside each of the pdfs there is a field for Assembly/Part # that is filled in with text – trying to search the library with that text never returns a PDF result (it will return Word or Excel results if they have the same text inside them). Searching the entire site also gives no results.
Is there a way to search a PDF file?
If you search by the Name in the Find a File it appears to work just fine but if we try searching for text within the PDF file it returns no results.
Where is the search box in SharePoint 2013?
Despite its presence for quite some time (the feature became available in SharePoint 2013), not many users know about it or get to use it. Every Document Library in SharePoint 2013 has a search box located just above the documents themselves.
In other words, in a word “vehicle”, you can’t search for text “ ehic “, it has to be “ veh “ The wildcard character in SharePoint is “ * “. You have to put the asterisk (wildcard character) after the first few letters, not before.
Are there any PDF files that are not scanned?
The PDFs are not scanned – it is a PDF form that the users fill in using Acrobat and then upload to the library. What am i missing?
How to search PDF files as attachments in a list item?
I have a solution for this long overdue and old problem. It is a slight work around for lists that have attachments or large lists to crawl the attachments and promote search results, it works. You must get WebDAV running and working on your servers and crawl the attachment location as a file share (UNC Path).
Network drives, file shares, DropBox are great if you want to store content. However, how do you find your content (documents)? With this blog post, I would like to explain the available options for searching and finding the documents in SharePoint.