# Index binary files
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-binary-files/17266
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 29, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-binary-files/17266 "2014-04-29T15:40:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@benjelloun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/benjelloun)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-binary-files/17266/1 "2014-04-29T15:40:59Z")
hello,
I installed ElasticSearch, its work good i can index and search xml and
json content using Dev HTTP Client.
I need your help to index binary files in elasticsearch then search for
them by content.
I added mapper-attachements to elastic search but what i dont know is how
to specify the folder of pdf or docx files to index it. something like
base64 or i dont know.
Thanks for helping me.
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### Author:  [@radu\_gheorghe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/radu_gheorghe)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2014, 10:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-binary-files/17266/2 "2014-04-30T10:05:00Z")
Hello,
Normally, you would send indexing requests to the REST API with the stuff
you want Elasticsearch to index:
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If you want Elasticsearch to automatically fetch files from the file system
for you, have a look at David's FileSystem River:
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 6:40 PM, anass benjelloun [anass.bnj@gmail.com](mailto:anass.bnj@gmail.com)wrote:
> hello,
>
> I installed Elasticsearch, its work good i can index and search xml and
> json content using Dev HTTP Client.
> I need your help to index binary files in elasticsearch then search for
> them by content.
> I added mapper-attachements to Elasticsearch but what i dont know is how
> to specify the folder of pdf or docx files to index it. something like
> base64 or i dont know.
> Thanks for helping me.
>
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### Author:  [@benjelloun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/benjelloun)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2014, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-binary-files/17266/3 "2014-05-06T15:30:24Z")
Hello again,
thanks for your answer.
But my probleme is how to specify the folder which have many documents to
index all of these document.
and i tested already indexing pdf file with giving base64 content and that
didn't work.
Best regards,
Anass BENJELLOUN
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-binary-files/17266/4 "2014-05-06T15:32:38Z")
Hard to tell without details of what you did so far and what did not work.
May be you could start describing all the steps from the beginning (provide versions for all component you are using as well)?
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Le 6 mai 2014 à 17:30:28, anass benjelloun ([anass.bnj@gmail.com](mailto:anass.bnj@gmail.com)) a écrit:
Hello again,
thanks for your answer.
But my probleme is how to specify the folder which have many documents to index all of these document.
and i tested already indexing pdf file with giving base64 content and that didn't work.
## Best regards, Anass BENJELLOUN
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-binary-files/17266/5 "2017-07-06T01:31:19Z")