SharePoint 2010 and PDF iFilter (Adobe)

I’d love to use Foxit’s super fast PDF iflter for my test SharePoint 2010 setup, but at $700, it’s not going to happen. However, the Adobe one works fine, after some regedit goodness. Looking online, there are lots of articles mentioning the SharePoint beta, but not the RTM. Here are the quick steps to get it operational:

1. Download the 64-bit ifilter from Adobe (also, download and open these instructions for the SharePoint 2007 install)
2. Stop IIS Admin (unsure if needed, what the heck)
3. Install the ifilter
4. From these instructions, download and install the PDF icon and update the DOCICON.XML (best to copy the line. I had a default icon and noticed I’d indented with a tab instead of spaces)
5. iisreset
6. In Central Admin, navigate to Search and add a file type for PDF
7. Now, follow the instructions for the registry edits in the Adobe install PDF. The UID is valid
8. net stop osearch14 && net start osearch14
9. From Central Admin Search, start a complete crawl on the Content Source
10. iisreset (I had to do this a 2nd / 1,000,000th time as I got an error message when doing a search)

In theory, in the results you’ll see the items with “crawled” underneath.

Hope this helps! I’ll clean this up if needed, enjoy all you SharePointers! It may not Foxit fast, but it does index the text content of the PDFs! Next up, FAST Search Server.