# Indexing large pdf document

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-large-pdf-document/22917>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 26, 2015, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-large-pdf-document/22917 "2015-03-26T09:51:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Meenal.Luktuke](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/meenal.luktuke/32/7795_2.png) [@Meenal.Luktuke](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Meenal.Luktuke)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 12:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-large-pdf-document/22917/8 "2016-06-23T12:37:52Z")

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Hi,

You can definitely index PDF document provided they are encoded in base-64

[https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-parsing-for-rich-text-documents/40640/3](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-parsing-for-rich-text-documents/40640/3)

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