OUTLOOK SEARCH NOT WORKING ON PDF DOCUMENTS

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OUTLOOK SEARCH NOT WORKING ON PDF DOCUMENTS

Iam using Microsoft Office professional plus 2016, Still I cant search content inside the pdf attachments. I try word and excel, that are searching fine. Only the pdf has an issue. Note that PDF attachment content are not a scanned type pdf file. Kindly ping me if you have any solution. I rebuilt the pst, Uninstall & reinstall also done: what are possibilities i try my side. Kindly plz help me to sort out this issue

Answer 1

Hi @Sajeer Hajib ,

Welcome to our forum!

What type of account are you using? Is it an POP or IMAP or Exchange account?
Does the issue also exist on the web?

Given this case, you may need to confirm Outlook has been indexed, we may even try rebuilding the Index to check the result.
In Outlook, File > Options > Search > Indexing Options.
Make sure Outlook is included and if you need to rebuild the index, click Advanced > Under Index Settings > Click Rebuild.

If that doesn't help, it is recommended you create a new profile and re-add your account:
Go to Control panel > Mail > Show Profiles > Add, then re-connect your account.

Hope above suggestions may help you.
If you still need help on this, feel free to contact us.

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Answer 2

Hi All,

I have installed PDF I FILTER software; search content inside the PDF is working in Outlook attachments . After installing the software ; again indexing need to be done. After that content search was working fine and I can search the content inside pdf . Download PDFiFilter application from below link. 100% sure it will work.

https://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobat/win/9.x/PDFiFilter64installer.zip

Outlook is not working on PDF Documents.pdf

Regards

Sajeer Hajib

IT Infrastructure Engineer

sajeerhajib@gmail.com

Answer 3

Dear Sajeer,

Thank you very much for your suggestion. PDF I FILTER worked for me.

I have been struggling for months because of same issue. Even microsoft technical team wasn't able to solve it after hours of diagnostic. Now it is solved. very appreciated.