Topic: How do I enable full text searching of documents?

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This guide walks through the process of turning on the ability to pull in a document's text into the description field, thus making it full text searchable.

To enable the ability to pull the text (no images or tables) from an uploaded PDF, Microsoft Word, Plain Text, or HTML document, you must install some supporting software and then enable it for the site:

  1. make sure you have installed the wv poppler-utils lynx packages (assuming you are using Debian Lenny, check other "Required Software" guides for other platforms) as mentioned in the installation guide
  2. login in as site admin with tech admin role (the default admin account should do the trick)
  3. click on "reconfigure site" in the "Administrator's Toolbox" towards the bottom of any page
  4. click "Advanced Options"
  5. click "Documents"
  6. change the "Enable Converting Documents:" field to true and click "Save"
  7. restart your server (using the button on the resulting page, or for earlier versions from the command line)

After that each document detail page will have a "Replace description with document text " link that can be used to pull in the text into the description, thus making it full text searchable.

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