# Logstash parsing for rich text documents

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-parsing-for-rich-text-documents/40640>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [February 1, 2016, 2:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-parsing-for-rich-text-documents/40640 "2016-02-01T14:39:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 22, 2016, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-parsing-for-rich-text-documents/40640/3 "2016-04-22T08:00:38Z")

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@magnusbaeck : Found a solution to this problem. Using mapper-attachment plugin, any rich text documents, PDF or office documents can be indexed in Elasticsearch. For making it real time, fs-crawler plugin can be used.

> **[dadoonet/fscrawler](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler)**
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> fscrawler - Elasticsearch File System Crawler (FS Crawler)

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