# Using ingest-attachment plugin
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-ingest-attachment-plugin/65531
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 9, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-ingest-attachment-plugin/65531 "2016-11-09T17:06:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@BGwosdz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BGwosdz)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-ingest-attachment-plugin/65531/1 "2016-11-09T17:06:41Z")
I am new to ES and LS trying to setup a pipeline that ingests pdf documents from a directory into ES using the ingest-attachment plugin. Do I have to extract the file's content myself or will it be done automatically by ES?
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### Author:  [@evert](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/evert)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-ingest-attachment-plugin/65531/2 "2016-11-09T17:23:07Z")
You should pass the file base64 encoded, please read these discussions which will claryfy and give sample codes as well:
1. [https://discuss.elastic.co/t/implementing-ingest-attachment-processor-plugin/](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/implementing-ingest-attachment-processor-plugin/)
2. [https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-5-0-php-ingest-attachment/](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-5-0-php-ingest-attachment/)
And also the docs which will help you a lot.
Cheers!
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### Author:  [@BGwosdz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BGwosdz)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-ingest-attachment-plugin/65531/3 "2016-11-09T17:31:48Z")
Thank you very much for the links. Now I know how to design the processing
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 7:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-ingest-attachment-plugin/65531/4 "2016-11-09T19:24:45Z")
You can also look at: [https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler)
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### Author:  [@jbigdata.fr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbigdata.fr)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-ingest-attachment-plugin/65531/5 "2016-11-16T15:17:55Z")
I try to execute.
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE (Unknown lifecycle phase "build")
Is-there a _bin_ directory to help me ?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2016, 3:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-ingest-attachment-plugin/65531/6 "2016-11-16T15:43:28Z")
What do you try to execute?
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### Author:  [@jbigdata.fr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbigdata.fr)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2016, 11:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-ingest-attachment-plugin/65531/7 "2016-11-17T11:53:43Z")
I try to "execute" your stackoverflow post :
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### Author:  [@jbigdata.fr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbigdata.fr)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2016, 11:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-ingest-attachment-plugin/65531/8 "2016-11-17T11:55:21Z")
The command to index a PDF and the command to search into a PDF after indexing.
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### Author:  [@jbigdata.fr](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbigdata.fr)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2016, 12:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-ingest-attachment-plugin/65531/9 "2016-11-18T12:04:09Z")
I tried _fscrawler_ more "seriously" and I succed to create my index.
ThankU.
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### Author:  [@evert](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/evert)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-ingest-attachment-plugin/65531/10 "2016-11-22T18:35:41Z")
Did you manage to fix it or still need help?
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### Author:  [@BGwosdz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BGwosdz)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2016, 10:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-ingest-attachment-plugin/65531/11 "2016-11-23T10:36:47Z")
Thank you for you help.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2016, 10:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-ingest-attachment-plugin/65531/12 "2016-12-21T10:37:24Z")
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