# Ingest Office documents using FileBeat, LogStash pipeline

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-office-documents-using-filebeat-logstash-pipeline/85462>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 11, 2017, 6:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-office-documents-using-filebeat-logstash-pipeline/85462 "2017-05-11T18:18:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Airn5475](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/airn5475/32/13757_2.png) [@Airn5475](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Airn5475)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2017, 6:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-office-documents-using-filebeat-logstash-pipeline/85462/1 "2017-05-11T18:18:56Z")

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Hello,  
We are currently using FileBeat and LogStash to import data into Elasticsearch.

We are looking to add Office Document to our index as well.

I know that Elasticsearch as an Ingest Plugin for handling documents, but is it possible to use this along with FileBeat & LogStash? If so, what would this look like?

Can I write a Word Doc to base64, put it into a json object and import it into FileBeat and send it thru LogStash to Elasticsearch?

This may be overkill, but I would like to maintain the consistency of how we get data into ES.

Thanks,  
-Aaron

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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:** [May 11, 2017, 9:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-office-documents-using-filebeat-logstash-pipeline/85462/2 "2017-05-11T21:21:41Z")

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Probably you can do that. I believe you can also send directly to elasticsearch without logstash in the middle.

I'd recommend looking at FSCrawler project which basically does all that.

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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:** [June 8, 2017, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-office-documents-using-filebeat-logstash-pipeline/85462/3 "2017-06-08T21:37:00Z")

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