# What is the best way to Index documents present in a directory

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-index-documents-present-in-a-directory/186325>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 18, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-index-documents-present-in-a-directory/186325 "2019-06-18T17:40:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![armharish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@armharish](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/armharish)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-index-documents-present-in-a-directory/186325/1 "2019-06-18T17:40:57Z")

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Is there a ES plugin (or any other solution) that can track new file and modifications to existing documents (PDF, TXT/CSV, Excel and MS Word) in a directory and index documents.

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**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 18, 2019, 8:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-index-documents-present-in-a-directory/186325/2 "2019-06-18T20:04:37Z")

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Have a look at FSCrawler project.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 8:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-the-best-way-to-index-documents-present-in-a-directory/186325/3 "2019-07-16T20:04:43Z")

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