# The usefulness of indexing images in ES
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-usefulness-of-indexing-images-in-es/187085
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 24, 2019, 8:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-usefulness-of-indexing-images-in-es/187085 "2019-06-24T08:58:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@kumar4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kumar4)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2019, 8:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-usefulness-of-indexing-images-in-es/187085/1 "2019-06-24T08:58:12Z")
hello, I want to know the utility of indexing images in ES, why indexing images and pdf in ES, is it possible to recover this images unsing ES in case of damage
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2019, 9:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-usefulness-of-indexing-images-in-es/187085/2 "2019-06-24T09:32:59Z")
IMHO there's a little sense to store images in elasticsearch.
There's sense to run OCR on images and extract text though and may be metadata.
What are you trying to do?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2019, 9:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-usefulness-of-indexing-images-in-es/187085/3 "2019-07-22T09:32:59Z")
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