# Elastic-Plugin to import folders **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 19, 2015, 12:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-plugin-to-import-folders/892 "2015-05-19T12:06:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@Dan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dan)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2015, 12:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-plugin-to-import-folders/892/1 "2015-05-19T12:06:11Z")
Hi, Is their any plugin available to import folders to elasticserch. For EX: I have one folder in that folder I have some files(pdf,csv....). So I need to import all the files into elastic serch. Is it possible. If possible please give me a solution. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 7:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-plugin-to-import-folders/892/2 "2015-05-20T07:46:54Z")
You can use Logstash to read some types of files, CSV, plain text, json and more. Otherwise I understand Apache Tika can do things like PDF and .doc, ---
**Author:** ![Camilo\_Sierra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/camilo_sierra/32/14397_2.png) [@Camilo\_Sierra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Camilo_Sierra)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 8:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-plugin-to-import-folders/892/3 "2015-05-20T08:06:17Z")
hello @Dan as said Mark you can use tika. You have a plugin elasticsearch ready to use (you can search in your files) [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-mapper-attachments](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-mapper-attachments) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-plugin-to-import-folders/892/4 "2017-07-06T00:13:09Z")