# Elasticsearch index on compressed string blob

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-index-on-compressed-string-blob/308151>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 25, 2022, 6:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-index-on-compressed-string-blob/308151 "2022-06-25T06:05:14Z")\
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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:** [June 25, 2022, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-index-on-compressed-string-blob/308151/6 "2022-06-25T09:44:48Z")

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You mentioned in [this earlier post](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-index-on-blob/306951) that you are using some potentially unusual compressed format. As far as I know Tika and the ingest attachment plugin only handle more common binary formats, so I would probably recommend extracting the content to be indexed from your blobs at the client side if you want to search using Elasticsearch.

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