# Indexing and Searching Multimedia Files
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-and-searching-multimedia-files/18645
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 14, 2014, 10:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-and-searching-multimedia-files/18645 "2014-07-14T10:30:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@vijuitech](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vijuitech)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2014, 10:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-and-searching-multimedia-files/18645/1 "2014-07-14T10:30:49Z")
Hi,
In elasticsearch the following datatypes of data can be indexed string,
integer/long, float/double, boolean and null which is referred in the
following link
[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-core-types.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-core-types.html).
Is there any method/approach can be used to index or Search the Multimedia
files like Audio, Video, Pdf , image etc. in elasticsearch?
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2014, 1:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-and-searching-multimedia-files/18645/2 "2014-07-16T13:51:57Z")
On Monday, July 14, 2014 at 12:30 CEST,
George Viju [vijuitech@gmail.com](mailto:vijuitech@gmail.com) wrote:
> In elasticsearch the following datatypes of data can be indexed string,
> integer/long, float/double, boolean and null which is referred in the
> following link
> [1][Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-core-types.html).
> Is there any method/approach can be used to index or Search the
> Multimedia files like Audio, Video, Pdf , image etc. in elasticsearch?
What does audio file indexing mean? Is it the metadata you want to
index? And do you want to store the actual file data in Elasticsearch
or just the metadata?
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### Author:  [@Alexandre\_Rafalovitc](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alexandre_Rafalovitc)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-and-searching-multimedia-files/18645/3 "2014-07-16T14:41:36Z")
Did you look at Attachment type plugin?
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On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 5:30 PM, George Viju [vijuitech@gmail.com](mailto:vijuitech@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi,
> In elasticsearch the following datatypes of data can be indexed string,
> integer/long, float/double, boolean and null which is referred in the
> following link
> [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-core-types.html).
> Is there any method/approach can be used to index or Search the Multimedia
> files like Audio, Video, Pdf , image etc. in elasticsearch?
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-and-searching-multimedia-files/18645/4 "2017-07-06T01:15:26Z")