# Elasticsearch is not able to search for NonEnglish text present in PDF type of attachment
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-able-to-search-for-nonenglish-text-present-in-pdf-type-of-attachment/539
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 12, 2015, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-able-to-search-for-nonenglish-text-present-in-pdf-type-of-attachment/539 "2015-05-12T09:24:43Z")
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### Author:  [@Prashant\_Pal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prashant_Pal)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2015, 9:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-able-to-search-for-nonenglish-text-present-in-pdf-type-of-attachment/539/1 "2015-05-12T09:24:44Z")
Hi Team,
We are facing an issue while searching the Non English text indexed as PDF type of document. Below are the complete details.
1. I am having a pdf document as New\_Pdf\_issue.pdf which is attached in this mail.
2. Created an indexing request alongwith mapping as well which is attached as pdf\_index\_issue.sh
3. Now if you will look onto pdf attachment you will find keywords such as "अधिकार", so if i am searching as "अधिकार" I am not able to get any matching documents for the same.
Note : What we observed is like when we perform search query as
```
{
"fields": [
"SessionAtt.content_type",
"SessionAtt"
],
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"query_string": {
"fields": [
"Content",
"SessionAtt" http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/file/n4074717/pdf_index_issue.sh
],
"query": "*"
}
}
]
}
}
}
```
We are observing as "अधिकार" words has been indexed as "अधधकार".
So can anyone let me know what could be the issue for the same.
Note : As I am not able to upload PDF docs and script file so please have a look onto same from below post-link as well.
[http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Elasticsearch-is-not-able-to-search-for-Nonnglish-text-present-in-PDF-type-of-attachment-td4074717.html](http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Elasticsearch-is-not-able-to-search-for-Nonnglish-text-present-in-PDF-type-of-attachment-td4074717.html)
~Prashant
---
### Author:  [@Prashant\_Pal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prashant_Pal)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2015, 4:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-able-to-search-for-nonenglish-text-present-in-pdf-type-of-attachment/539/2 "2015-05-18T04:52:57Z")
Hi All,
Any solution or suggestion for the same ?
~Prashant
---
### Author:  [@Prashant\_Pal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prashant_Pal)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2015, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-able-to-search-for-nonenglish-text-present-in-pdf-type-of-attachment/539/3 "2015-05-27T09:14:45Z")
Hi All,
Is there any solution or work around for the above mentioned query.
~Prashant
---
### Author:  [@Sarwar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sarwar)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2015, 5:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-able-to-search-for-nonenglish-text-present-in-pdf-type-of-attachment/539/4 "2015-05-27T17:10:22Z")
This might help:
[http://gibrown.com/2013/05/01/three-principles-for-multilingal-indexing-in-elasticsearch/](http://gibrown.com/2013/05/01/three-principles-for-multilingal-indexing-in-elasticsearch/)
Look at the section regarding the stop words and analyzers. There is a hindi one there which you might want to use in your mapping.
Sarwar
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-not-able-to-search-for-nonenglish-text-present-in-pdf-type-of-attachment/539/5 "2017-07-06T00:11:32Z")