Domino on Linux: problem indexing PDF attachments

I am posting this as helpful information for others. We were using on Linux. We noticed that PDF attachments were not being indexed, and therefore the content in those documents was not searchable.

We reviewed these forums and Google. Based on that research, we checked the Database Properties “Index attached files” and “use conversion filters on supported files”. They already were selected, so that was not the problem.

After more research, we then applied these changes to the notes.ini file on the server:

FT_BINARY_FILTER_OFF=0

OS400_KEYVIEW_CSID=0052

PLATFORM_CSID=052 

That did not help.

Finally, we determined that the problem was the version of Linux. We were using Ubuntu. When we built a test server using CentOS, that indexed PDF files with no problems. We also did some tests on a server running Fedora, and that also worked. I don’t know if any of these versions are considered supported or not, but it appears that Ubuntu is less compatible with Domino than the others, at least as far as full text indexing is concerned.

Subject: It’s not actually a Linux problem

Adobe keeps changing the format of PDF files and, as I recall, IBM stopped supporting the indexing of PDFs some time ago. Depending on how the PDFs are created, it’s possible for them to be indexed or not.

The problem isn’t limited to files generated by Adobe; we had an issue with PDFCreator if the user selected one specific version of PDF as the output (and sorry but it’s been a while and I don’t recall the details).

In general, we’ve had little to no problem with Domino indexing PDFs but we know that this can change in an instant and typically review PDF indexing any time PDF generator systems are updated.

Doug

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