Appsearch support for large attachments

[ggbertelli (Gigi)]

I did not see the datatype called "attachments" in the Appsearch documentation

I found a suggestion to use _simulate (which means to post the attachment to elasticsearch first then query the elasticsearch _simulate to get back the data to be submitted to the Appsearch

How to index PDF file data and search data from attachment PDF file

So you need to add the ingest attachment plugin Click on Settings and Plugins: [image] Add the plugin. And don't forget to save the changes. [image] After the cluster has been updated, you will be able to use the Elasticsearch endpoint to call the _simulate API. See Simulate pipeline API | Elasticsearch Reference [7.11] | Elastic If you mix that with the plugin documentation, you should be able to execute something like: # Create the pipeline PUT _ingest/pipeline/attachment { "descript…

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Is it possible to index Files (PDF, DOC, PPT) using App Search?

I would like to use App Search for searching files from the server folder, Is it possible to feed this to Elastic Enterprise Search - App Search as a document using ingest-attachment-plugin. My server is NodeJS, also I prefer App search as it has options like Synonyms, Curations, ... Help will be appreciated, Thank you

Are we missing something?

Another solution is to use Tika: * programmatically parsing my files with Apache Tika (should I convert them to Base64?)

Thank you in advance