Plugins for Zoom Search Engine

Zoom supports the use of plugins to search and index various popular file formats. By installing these plugins, you will be able to search file types such as Word documents and Adobe Acrobat PDF files.

Plugin support is available in all purchased editions of Zoom (Standard, Professional, or Enterprise). It is not available in the Free Edition.

Complete plugins installer package

Download all plugins (2.4 MB)   (Last updated: 5/Nov/2007)

You can now download all of the plugins listed below in one convenient installer package. This single executable will install all plugins currently available for Zoom. Please see "Using the plugins" below for further instructions.

This installer package is not designed to be used with the Zoom Dreamweaver Extension. Users of the DW Extension should download the individual plugins below.

Individual plugin download

For help on installing and enabling these indivdiual plug ins, please refer to the instructions below.

Installing a plugin

You can download and install all plug-ins in one go by using the "Complete plugins installer package" above. With this package, all you have to do is run the installer, and select the folder to install to (it should find the right one for you but if it does not, check the information below for the correct path).

If you wish to only install the individual plugins you require, you can download the plugins one at a time from the list at the top of this page. You should then locate the directory in which the Zoom Indexer application is installed ("ZoomIndexer.exe"). With the default installation settings, this should be in the "C:\Program Files\Zoom Search Engine 5.1\" directory.

If you are using the Dreamweaver Extension, refer to this page for alternate paths and install locations.

Once you have located this folder, you will need to unzip the ZIP file you've downloaded into the "plugins" sub-folder (allow it to overwrite files if prompted). You can then restart Zoom and the index log on the right should indicate if it has found the plugin and the supported file extension will now be enabled. You can now add the file extension to the Extensions list (see "Using the plugins" below)

Note: The readme instructions within the ZIP files are not necessary to use them as plugins with Zoom.

Using the plugins

Once a plugin is installed, all you have to do is open the Configuration window, and add the file extension supported to the Extension List (under the "Scan options" tab). For example, ".doc" for Word document support. Click OK and start indexing. You may want to save this setting with your configuration.

Upgrading a plugin

As new versions of the plugins become available on the website, simply copy them into the same "plugins" directory, overwriting the old plugin.

Problems?

If you have trouble with getting the plugins to work or to index a particular file, please refer to our support page for plugins.

Shockwave Flash support (SWF plugin)

The SWF plugin allows Zoom to not only search through the text found within a SWF file, but also find links to other pages for spider mode indexing. This means that once you install the SWF plugin, you will be able to spider index a site which is dependant on Flash-based navigation. You will also be able to index and search Macromedia's new printable document format: FlashPaper, in UTF-8 encoding. More information on Flash support here.

GPL and LGPL licensed source code

Source code for the GPL and LGPL open source modules can be found at the following sites, XPDF, xlhtml, wpd2text. We can also E-mail a copy of the source code to you if required should these sites disappear.