Questions about searching PDF files

[Ray]

Hi Robin,

My remaining questions are (1) what is displayed, if anything, in the search results for a PDF document that has an empty description field in its metadata; and (2) can I suppress display of the document description in the results list?

If there is no meta description for any result (PDF or HTML or otherwise), then only the context description is shown (the part of the content where the matched word was found).

If context description is not enabled (such as when using the JavaScript platform), then a portion of the page content is extracted from the beginning of the document.

I thought of another question, and I certainly appreciate your time. With respect to Ray's information on searching metadata fields in PDF documents:

http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4344

Can this process be employed to search any of the metadata fields in a PDF document?

Only those which are extracted by the PDF plugin. This should apply for Title, Author, and Subject (which is used as a meta description). You will have to disable them from indexing as noted in the previous thread.

Can the website user leave the text search box empty and search only the metadata field(s)?

Yes. You can see how this behaves on our demo "fruit shop" site featuring the Custom Meta Fields features.

[cmplxgal]

Thank you again. I am thrilled to have found an excellent solution for adding a search capability to my newsletter's website.

My best,
Robin

[acokaj]

Hello,

I have bought Zoom Search 5.1 Professional Edition and I need now to index also PDF files (but I can see, I cannot)...

Is it possible for this Edition to index PDF files? If it is, what should I do to make this possible, and if not, what should I do then?

Best Regards,

Arben Cokaj

[wrensoft]

but I can see, I cannot..

Why not?

You need to add .PDF to the list of files types to index and have the plug-ins installed.
http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/plugins.html
That should be all that is required.

[acokaj]

Thank you very much, indeed. I tried it and everything was going OK.

But I would like to ask, how can I index files that are bigger than 1 MB (1024 KB)? Because I have some PDF files that are bigger and they cannot be downloaded.

Is it possible to change the specification of the file size from 1 MB (1024 KB), to something more?

Best Regards,

Arben

[wrensoft]

You can adjust the file size limit from the 'limits' configuration window.

But there are different max limits depending on the edition of the software you are using. See,
http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/editions.html

[acokaj]

Thanks a lot, I did it successfully.

I have this version of 5.1 of Zoom Search Engine, it is for sure better to have version 6

- For me as a buyer of version 5.1, is there a price reduction in buying version 6?

Best Regards,

Arben

[wrensoft]

Discounted upgrades are available from this page,
http://www.wrensoft.com/sales/upgrades.php

[acokaj]

Thanks a lot... I am thinking of upgrading...

[Ray]

There's alot of good reasons to upgrade to V6. See this thread for a summary of improvements:
http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showth...features-in-V6