# Index PDF in ES

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pdf-in-es/79535>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 22, 2017, 6:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pdf-in-es/79535 "2017-03-22T06:34:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 15\
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**Author:** ![wolfghost](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wolfghost/32/15500_2.png) [@wolfghost](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wolfghost)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 6:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pdf-in-es/79535/1 "2017-03-22T06:34:28Z")

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Can i create index for pdf file?  
How?

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**Author:** ![shanec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shanec/32/4004_2.png) [@shanec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shanec)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 6:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pdf-in-es/79535/2 "2017-03-22T06:42:51Z")

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You'll want the [ingest-attachment](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/5.2/ingest-attachment.html) plugin.

You can have a look at [Implementing Ingest Attachment Processor Plugin](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/implementing-ingest-attachment-processor-plugin/52300/11) for an example which will help you I think

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pdf-in-es/79535/3 "2017-03-22T07:05:22Z")

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If you have PDF docs in a folder you can use FSCrawler project as well.

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**Author:** ![wolfghost](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wolfghost/32/15500_2.png) [@wolfghost](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wolfghost)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 10:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pdf-in-es/79535/4 "2017-03-22T10:39:08Z")

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Thanks both of you guys,

Can i give path of file in ingest plugin?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 12:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pdf-in-es/79535/5 "2017-03-22T12:30:20Z")

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No.

You need to push data to ingest. Ingest can not pull data from a source.

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**Author:** ![wolfghost](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wolfghost/32/15500_2.png) [@wolfghost](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wolfghost)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pdf-in-es/79535/6 "2017-03-22T12:48:21Z")

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```auto
PUT _ingest/pipeline/attachment
{
  "description" : "Extract attachment information",
  "processors" : [
    {
      "attachment" : {
        "field" : "path"
      }
    }
  ]
}
PUT my_index/my_type/my_id?pipeline=attachment
{
  "path": { "type":"{path.home}/data/base64.bin" }
}

```

Can i use path?

Is there any other plugin i can use with ingest?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 2:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pdf-in-es/79535/7 "2017-03-22T14:19:26Z")

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No you can't.

But I mentioned FSCrawler project already.

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**Author:** ![wolfghost](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wolfghost/32/15500_2.png) [@wolfghost](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wolfghost)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 7:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pdf-in-es/79535/8 "2017-03-23T07:45:44Z")

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FScrawler is not working it is not even showing any error.  
Command fscrawler job\_name stuck for an hour on CLI.

I am using WINDOWS 10 and fscrawler 2.2.  
Please help me

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 10:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pdf-in-es/79535/9 "2017-03-23T10:20:36Z")

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Yes. It's because of this:

> <https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler/pull/323>

Use the latest SNAPSHOT from here: [https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/fr/pilato/elasticsearch/crawler/fscrawler/2.3-SNAPSHOT/](https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/fr/pilato/elasticsearch/crawler/fscrawler/2.3-SNAPSHOT/)

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**Author:** ![wolfghost](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wolfghost/32/15500_2.png) [@wolfghost](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wolfghost)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pdf-in-es/79535/10 "2017-03-23T12:59:19Z")

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Thanks, now i am able to create index in elastic search.

Can i create index for images , which are inside pdf?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 1:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pdf-in-es/79535/11 "2017-03-23T13:19:42Z")

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Do you mean? OCR?

If so, this ([https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler#ocr-integration-using-tika-and-tesseract](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler#ocr-integration-using-tika-and-tesseract)) is supposed to work. But someone reported that it might be buggy actually:

> <https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler/issues/314>

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**Author:** ![wolfghost](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wolfghost/32/15500_2.png) [@wolfghost](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wolfghost)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2017, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pdf-in-es/79535/12 "2017-03-24T09:14:26Z")

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I installed tesseract but when i execute any exe inside it it is not running?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2017, 9:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pdf-in-es/79535/13 "2017-03-24T09:33:26Z")

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I really don't know. I'm sorry. I need to find some spare time to play with it but never got a chance to find a couple of hours yet.

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**Author:** ![wolfghost](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wolfghost/32/15500_2.png) [@wolfghost](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wolfghost)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 11:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pdf-in-es/79535/14 "2017-03-27T11:10:23Z")

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Thanks for helping me 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 11:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-pdf-in-es/79535/15 "2017-04-24T11:10:57Z")

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