# Problem with .docx and the mapper-attachments plugin **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 18, 2016, 8:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-docx-and-the-mapper-attachments-plugin/44804 "2016-03-18T08:03:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markus\_Ziegler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/markus_ziegler/32/8550_2.png) [@Markus\_Ziegler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Markus_Ziegler)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 8:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-docx-and-the-mapper-attachments-plugin/44804/1 "2016-03-18T08:03:40Z")
Hi guys. I'm currently evaluating elastic search for one of my little private software projects πŸ™‚ I'm trying to index attachments with the mapper-attachments plugin and the indexing of .txt and .pdf files works fine. But I think there is an error in the indexing of .docx files. When searching for my test string, I get the PDF and .txt results, but not the .docx results. I already searched for this problem but I can't find a solution for this one. I followed the instructions for index creation on [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/2.2/mapper-attachments-highlighting.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/2.2/mapper-attachments-highlighting.html) and added the .docx file with the following command: PUT /test/person/4?refresh=true { "file": { "\_content\_type": "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document", "\_content": "... MY BASE64 CONTENT ..." } } Is this problem repeatable by anyone? Thanks πŸ™‚ ---
**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 18, 2016, 8:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-docx-and-the-mapper-attachments-plugin/44804/2 "2016-03-18T08:15:10Z")
Yes. [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/17059](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/17059) ---
**Author:** ![Markus\_Ziegler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/markus_ziegler/32/8550_2.png) [@Markus\_Ziegler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Markus_Ziegler)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 8:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-docx-and-the-mapper-attachments-plugin/44804/3 "2016-03-18T08:31:24Z")
Thanks a lot for your hint. Is there a way to update the plugin without the need of compiling it? With the command "bin\plugin.bat install mapper-attachments" the docx files still won't work. Thanks! πŸ™‚ ---
**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 18, 2016, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-docx-and-the-mapper-attachments-plugin/44804/4 "2016-03-18T09:06:48Z")
I'm afraid you have to wait for elasticsearch 2.3.0 which fixes this. I'm unsure if there is a plan to backport in 2.2.x. @Clinton_Gormley1 WDYT? ---
**Author:** ![Markus\_Ziegler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/markus_ziegler/32/8550_2.png) [@Markus\_Ziegler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Markus_Ziegler)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 6:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-docx-and-the-mapper-attachments-plugin/44804/5 "2016-03-21T06:36:36Z")
Ok thanks, then I will wait till the release of 2.3.0 Is there an approximate release date of this version? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![evert](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/evert/32/8143_2.png) [@evert](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/evert)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-docx-and-the-mapper-attachments-plugin/44804/6 "2016-06-03T19:40:19Z")
Hi @Markus_Ziegler How is your project going? itΒ΄s working now! I have used only the extension file when indexing, as below: ``` $filetype = 'docx'; // Or 'pdf' or 'txt' or 'doc' 'body' => [ 'file' => [ '_content_type' => 'application/' . $filetype, '_name' => $file, // full file pathname '_language' => $lang, //language '_indexed_chars' => -1, '_content' => base64_encode(file_get_contents($file)) ] ] ``` Code for php library. Cheers! ---
**Author:** ![Drammy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Drammy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Drammy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-docx-and-the-mapper-attachments-plugin/44804/7 "2016-06-29T09:47:08Z")
Hi @evert, what version are you running? ---
**Author:** ![Markus\_Ziegler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/markus_ziegler/32/8550_2.png) [@Markus\_Ziegler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Markus_Ziegler)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-docx-and-the-mapper-attachments-plugin/44804/8 "2016-06-29T09:59:56Z")
Thanks for all your assistance. It's working now in the current version 2.3.3 and I'm able to index docx files as expected. Loving this project πŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![evert](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/evert/32/8143_2.png) [@evert](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/evert)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-docx-and-the-mapper-attachments-plugin/44804/9 "2016-06-29T10:11:28Z")
Hi @Drammy I am using 2.3.3. ---
**Author:** ![Drammy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Drammy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Drammy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-docx-and-the-mapper-attachments-plugin/44804/10 "2016-06-29T15:00:47Z")
That's great, thanks. Is there a list somewhere of the supported document types? (or is it just those supported in Tika?) ---
**Author:** ![evert](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/evert/32/8143_2.png) [@evert](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/evert)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-docx-and-the-mapper-attachments-plugin/44804/11 "2016-06-29T15:37:48Z")
I think it's the ones supported in Tika. It uses Tika. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-docx-and-the-mapper-attachments-plugin/44804/12 "2016-06-29T16:14:53Z")
Actually we removed some dependencies and kept the most common ones for common file types like PDF, oOo, MSOffice, text... ---
**Author:** ![Drammy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Drammy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Drammy)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-docx-and-the-mapper-attachments-plugin/44804/13 "2016-06-29T16:29:57Z")
Hi David, Do you know if there's a list somewhere? We need to index documents from a system that can store any doc type. If ES doesn't index a given document we'll need to handle that scenario by reading in the contents ourselves and indexing them separately... ---
**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:** [June 29, 2016, 5:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-docx-and-the-mapper-attachments-plugin/44804/14 "2016-06-29T17:04:49Z")
That's what I'd do for all docs instead of sending binary content to Elasticsearch. So I mean: don't use mapper attachments plugin if you can do text extraction in another way. You can use Tika by yourself actually. I don't have such a list. ---
**Author:** ![Drammy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Drammy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Drammy)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 9:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-docx-and-the-mapper-attachments-plugin/44804/15 "2016-06-30T21:18:44Z")
Thanks David, we'll look into this approach - makes sense to me. Do you know where I can get such a list? Anyone I can ask? I'd have thought there should be a list somewhere of what doc types the attachment plugin supports... ---
**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:** [July 1, 2016, 5:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-docx-and-the-mapper-attachments-plugin/44804/16 "2016-07-01T05:44:03Z")
Well. We wrote this issue at some point: [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-mapper-attachments/issues/163](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-mapper-attachments/issues/163) But if you use Tika on your side you are not limited by our implementation. So the Tika list is [https://tika.apache.org/1.13/formats.html](https://tika.apache.org/1.13/formats.html) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-with-docx-and-the-mapper-attachments-plugin/44804/17 "2017-07-05T22:39:06Z")