# Please let me know if i can use elasticsearch for text search in pdf and word documents
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/please-let-me-know-if-i-can-use-elasticsearch-for-text-search-in-pdf-and-word-documents/58821
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 24, 2016, 12:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/please-let-me-know-if-i-can-use-elasticsearch-for-text-search-in-pdf-and-word-documents/58821 "2016-08-24T12:44:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Raviraj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Raviraj)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2016, 12:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/please-let-me-know-if-i-can-use-elasticsearch-for-text-search-in-pdf-and-word-documents/58821/1 "2016-08-24T12:44:28Z")
Hi friends,
Kindly let me know is it possible in elastic search to search texts in pdf & word documents.
I'm new to elastic search,please help me out.
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### Author:  [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2016, 1:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/please-let-me-know-if-i-can-use-elasticsearch-for-text-search-in-pdf-and-word-documents/58821/2 "2016-08-24T13:05:54Z")
Look at the attachement plugin in 2.x and the attachement ingest pipeline
in the 5.0 alphas.
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### Author:  [@Raviraj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Raviraj)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/please-let-me-know-if-i-can-use-elasticsearch-for-text-search-in-pdf-and-word-documents/58821/3 "2016-08-24T13:43:54Z")
please tell it briefly.
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### Author:  [@Raviraj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Raviraj)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2016, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/please-let-me-know-if-i-can-use-elasticsearch-for-text-search-in-pdf-and-word-documents/58821/4 "2016-08-24T13:44:46Z")
i didn't get exactly what u r saying. Thanks for the reply.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/please-let-me-know-if-i-can-use-elasticsearch-for-text-search-in-pdf-and-word-documents/58821/5 "2016-08-24T15:58:36Z")
@nik9000 basically invited you to read: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/current/mapper-attachments.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/current/mapper-attachments.html)
You can also look at fscrawler project: [https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler)
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### Author:  [@Raviraj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Raviraj)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2016, 10:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/please-let-me-know-if-i-can-use-elasticsearch-for-text-search-in-pdf-and-word-documents/58821/6 "2016-08-25T10:10:27Z")
Thank you @dadoonet
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/please-let-me-know-if-i-can-use-elasticsearch-for-text-search-in-pdf-and-word-documents/58821/7 "2017-07-05T22:25:17Z")