# I cant index microsoft office files and pdf in elisticsearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-index-microsoft-office-files-and-pdf-in-elisticsearch/121377
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 25, 2018, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-index-microsoft-office-files-and-pdf-in-elisticsearch/121377 "2018-02-25T12:24:43Z")
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### Author:  [@sara2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sara2)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2018, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-index-microsoft-office-files-and-pdf-in-elisticsearch/121377/1 "2018-02-25T12:24:43Z")
hello ,
i use elisticsearch 2.0.0 and i try to index and search for pdf files or word files but it always failed because content inserted on it like encoded text and when use file\_get\_content it also failed
and i search and try to use tika apache but i cant install plugin for mapper and i dont know how integrated it i'm new in elisticsearch and
is the elisticsearch support searching in word files or pdf file ?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-index-microsoft-office-files-and-pdf-in-elisticsearch/121377/2 "2018-02-25T14:21:32Z")
Have a look at:
- [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/6.2/ingest-attachment.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/6.2/ingest-attachment.html)
- [https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler)
If you are looking at something more OOTB look at [https://swiftype.com/](https://swiftype.com/)
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### Author:  [@sara2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sara2)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2018, 2:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-index-microsoft-office-files-and-pdf-in-elisticsearch/121377/3 "2018-02-25T14:36:37Z")
but ingest-attachment not available on elisticsearch 2.0.0
i use this plugin elasticsearch-mapper-attachments and try to index document by this code
```
$content = base64_encode(file_get_contents($doc_src));
```
//Indexing by mapping
$json = '{
"attachment" : {
"\_content\_type" : "application/pdf",
"\_name" : "'.$doc\_src.'",
"\_content" : "'.$content.'"
}
}';
```
$params = array();
$params['index'] = 'documents';
$params['type'] = 'attachment';
$params['id'] = '17';
$params['body'] = $json;
$response= $this->elasticsearch->client->index($params);
print_r($response);
```
and it index the document with encoding document but when i search
```
$params['index'] = 'documents';
$params['type'] = 'attachment';
$params2['body']['query']['match']['file.content'] = 'Text';
$response= $this->elasticsearch-> client->search($params2);
print_r($response);
```
there is now result it always release empty array
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2018, 4:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-index-microsoft-office-files-and-pdf-in-elisticsearch/121377/4 "2018-02-25T16:39:23Z")
> but ingest-attachment not available on elisticsearch 2.0.0
That's true. I'd suggest to upgrade to 5.6 or 6.2.
At the very least you should upgrade to latest 2.x. 2.0.0 is so old.
`mapper-attachments` plugin has been removed in 6.x so I'd really recommend not using it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-index-microsoft-office-files-and-pdf-in-elisticsearch/121377/5 "2018-03-25T16:40:25Z")
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