# Ingest plugin .docx issue

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-plugin-docx-issue/170717>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 4, 2019, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-plugin-docx-issue/170717 "2019-03-04T11:29:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Ananth\_Rao](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ananth_rao/32/49257_2.png) [@Ananth\_Rao](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ananth_Rao)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-plugin-docx-issue/170717/1 "2019-03-04T11:29:31Z")

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Hi ,

i'm using ES 6.5.4 and ingest-plugin . It works fine with pdf , txt or any other file types, but breaks for .docx and .doc files.  
The index gets created , but unable to parse and search .  
Below is the output .  
"attachment":{"content\_type":"application/x-tika-ooxml","content\_length":0}}

can you please help me resolving this issue ?

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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 4, 2019, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-plugin-docx-issue/170717/2 "2019-03-04T11:40:32Z")

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Could you share your `.docx` document? I'd like to try it.

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**Author:** ![Ananth\_Rao](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ananth_rao/32/49257_2.png) [@Ananth\_Rao](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ananth_Rao)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 12:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-plugin-docx-issue/170717/3 "2019-03-04T12:07:08Z")

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Thanks for the reply . My docx file doesn't contain any image or special representations . its a simple , plain text file in docx . I would like to add one more piece of info . I have 2 different versions of ES in different servers . There are no issues with docx in ES 6.5.0 , but i'm facing issue with ES 6.5.4 .

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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 4, 2019, 12:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-plugin-docx-issue/170717/4 "2019-03-04T12:19:02Z")

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But could you share it then?

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**Author:** ![Ananth\_Rao](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ananth_rao/32/49257_2.png) [@Ananth\_Rao](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ananth_Rao)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-plugin-docx-issue/170717/5 "2019-03-04T13:55:51Z")

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hi , can you tell me how can to share the file ?

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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 4, 2019, 2:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-plugin-docx-issue/170717/6 "2019-03-04T14:10:53Z")

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May be there? [https://filebin.ca/](https://filebin.ca/)

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**Author:** ![Ananth\_Rao](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ananth_rao/32/49257_2.png) [@Ananth\_Rao](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ananth_Rao)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 2:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-plugin-docx-issue/170717/7 "2019-03-04T14:19:39Z")

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[https://filebin.ca/4Z2J1tObkmTt/test123.docx](https://filebin.ca/4Z2J1tObkmTt/test123.docx)

please use the above the file

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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 4, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-plugin-docx-issue/170717/8 "2019-03-04T14:47:06Z")

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I tried your document on a 6.6.1 version with:

```auto
POST _ingest/pipeline/_simulate
{
  "pipeline": {
    "description": "test",
    "processors": [
      {
        "attachment": {
          "field": "data"
        }
      },
      {
        "remove": {
          "field": "data"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "docs": [
    {
      "_index": "index",
      "_type": "_doc",
      "_id": "id",
      "_source": {
        "data": " ***BASE 64 CONTENT***"
      }
    }
  ]
}

```

This gave:

```auto
{
  "docs" : [
    {
      "doc" : {
        "_index" : "index",
        "_type" : "_doc",
        "_id" : "id",
        "_source" : {
          "attachment" : {
            "date" : "2019-03-04T12:03:00Z",
            "language" : "et",
            "content_type" : "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document",
            "author" : "Ananthmurthy Rao",
            "content" : """
1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc ac faucibus odio. 

Vestibulum neque massa, scelerisque sit amet ligula eu, congue molestie mi. Praesent ut varius sem. Nullam at porttitor arcu, nec lacinia nisi. Ut ac dolor vitae odio interdum condimentum. Vivamus dapibus sodales ex, vitae malesuada ipsum cursus convallis. Maecenas sed egestas nulla, ac condimentum orci. Mauris diam felis, vulputate ac suscipit et, iaculis non est. Curabitur semper arcu ac ligula semper, nec luctus nisl blandit. Integer lacinia ante ac libero lobortis imperdiet. Nullam mollis convallis ipsum, ac accumsan nunc vehicula vitae. Nulla eget justo in felis tristique fringilla. Morbi sit amet tortor quis risus auctor condimentum. Morbi in ullamcorper elit. Nulla iaculis tellus sit amet mauris tempus fringilla.
""",
            "content_length" : 816
          }
        },
        "_ingest" : {
          "timestamp" : "2019-03-04T14:46:00.089544Z"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

```

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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 1, 2019, 2:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ingest-plugin-docx-issue/170717/9 "2019-04-01T14:57:01Z")

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