# Binary file indexing

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/binary-file-indexing/139498
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 11, 2018, 7:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/binary-file-indexing/139498 "2018-07-11T07:41:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author: ![sankar\_elastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@sankar\_elastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sankar_elastic)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2018, 7:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/binary-file-indexing/139498/1 "2018-07-11T07:41:56Z")

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Can we indexing the binary file through elastic which is not having any extension ?

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### Author: ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2018, 7:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/binary-file-indexing/139498/2 "2018-07-11T07:51:23Z")

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You will need to convert it into JSON somehow. Elasticsearch does not index binary files.

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### Author: ![sankar\_elastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@sankar\_elastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sankar_elastic)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2018, 7:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/binary-file-indexing/139498/3 "2018-07-11T07:54:39Z")

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Thank you Christian. i thought by using the ingest-attachment we can do that?

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### Author: ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2018, 7:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/binary-file-indexing/139498/4 "2018-07-11T07:56:30Z")

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That is indeed used to extract data from binary files, but as I am not familiar with it I will leave that to someone else.

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2018, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/binary-file-indexing/139498/5 "2018-07-11T12:28:32Z")

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Yes. All what Christian said.

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### Author: ![sankar\_elastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@sankar\_elastic](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sankar_elastic)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2018, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/binary-file-indexing/139498/6 "2018-07-12T09:21:31Z")

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Thanks dadoonet. But how we can indexing the binary files means what content type i need to use,could you please pass to me if you have any sudo code which will read the binary files.

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2018, 1:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/binary-file-indexing/139498/7 "2018-07-12T13:24:49Z")

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Did you read the documentation about the plugin?

Otherwise you can also give a try at FSCrawler project which exposes also a REST interface. It's like a proxy to elasticsearch for indexing binary files.

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2018, 1:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/binary-file-indexing/139498/8 "2018-08-09T13:24:51Z")

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