# Attachment Plugin doesn't index fulltext of PDF with not embedded fonts
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attachment-plugin-doesnt-index-fulltext-of-pdf-with-not-embedded-fonts/31370
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 29, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attachment-plugin-doesnt-index-fulltext-of-pdf-with-not-embedded-fonts/31370 "2015-09-29T22:35:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@arkadyzalko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arkadyzalko)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attachment-plugin-doesnt-index-fulltext-of-pdf-with-not-embedded-fonts/31370/1 "2015-09-29T22:35:30Z")
Hi,
I have some problems when I'm trying to index some pdf files.
Searching works fine for PDFs with embedded fonts but if the font is not embedded ElasticSearch is not able to index fulltext.
I'm using this file:
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9fkTrpP5kPVcHZPOU1iMDktRDA/view?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9fkTrpP5kPVcHZPOU1iMDktRDA/view?usp=sharing)
My test shellscript:
```
host=localhost:9200
curl -X PUT "${host}/test/document/_mapping" -d '{
"document": {
"properties": {
"file": {
"type": "attachment",
"fields": {
"title": { "store": "yes" },
"file": { "term_vector": "with_positions_offsets", "store": "yes" }
}
}
}
}
}'
coded=`cat not_found.pdf | perl -MMIME::Base64 -ne 'print encode_base64($_)'`
json="{\"file\":\"${coded}\"}"
echo "$json" > json.file
curl -X POST "${host}/test/document/" -d @json.file
echo
curl -XPOST "${host}/_refresh"
curl "${host}/_search?pretty=true" -d '{
"fields" : ["title"],
"query" : {
"query_string" : {
"query" : "butter"
}
},
"highlight" : {
"fields" : {
"file" : {}
}
}
}'
```
What did I do wrong?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2015, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attachment-plugin-doesnt-index-fulltext-of-pdf-with-not-embedded-fonts/31370/2 "2015-09-29T22:51:04Z")
That's may be an issue with Apache Tika which is used behind the scene by elasticsearch.
There is a small "main" application you can use to check what actually Tika is doing behind the scene, if you are a Java Developer.
See [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-mapper-attachments/blob/master/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/attachment/test/standalone/StandaloneRunner.java](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-mapper-attachments/blob/master/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/attachment/test/standalone/StandaloneRunner.java)
I'm often using this one...
---
### Author:  [@arkadyzalko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arkadyzalko)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attachment-plugin-doesnt-index-fulltext-of-pdf-with-not-embedded-fonts/31370/3 "2015-09-29T23:05:35Z")
I've changed my mapping to this:
```
"document": {
"properties": {
"file": {
"type": "attachment",
"fields": {
"title": { "store": "yes" },
"file": {
"term_vector": "with_positions_offsets",
"store": "yes",
"type": "string"
}
}
}
}
}
```
I found "\ufffd" char in many parts of my pdf. I think is a encoding problem. Do you know if I can fix that?
Text fonts information bellow:
```
arkady@aevo:~/$ pdffonts not_found.pdf
name type encoding emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- ---------
Arial CID TrueType Identity-H yes no yes 12 0
[none] Type 3 Custom yes no yes 17 0
[none] Type 3 Custom yes no yes 274 0
Source Sans Pro CID TrueType Identity-H yes no yes 531 0
[none] Type 3 Custom yes no yes 536 0
Source Sans Pro CID TrueType Identity-H yes no yes 793 0
```
---
### Author:  [@arkadyzalko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arkadyzalko)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attachment-plugin-doesnt-index-fulltext-of-pdf-with-not-embedded-fonts/31370/4 "2015-09-29T23:24:31Z")
When I use directly in Tika, I see plain text below. Can I fix encoding used by Tika?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attachment-plugin-doesnt-index-fulltext-of-pdf-with-not-embedded-fonts/31370/5 "2017-07-05T23:47:30Z")