How to convert sharepoint aspx pages to pdf or any other file type that can be used as a data source si it can be indexedfor Azure AI Search

Question

I want to use AI search with my organization site. the site contains aspx pages that i want to use as a data source. Indexing aspx pages is not supported as per documentation so I'm looking into converting them to another type that can be indexed.

Is my asumption correct, converting the aspx pages is the only way I can use Azure AI solution ?

How can I convert them my aspx pages ? and is there a recommended type ?

kind regards :)

Answer 1

@Babiker Assie To add to the great answer that IM provided, here is a sample by using iTextSharp to convert an ASPX page to a PDF:

using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;

// Get the ASPX page content
string url = "http://example.com/mypage.aspx";
WebClient client = new WebClient();
string html = client.DownloadString(url);

// Convert the HTML to PDF
Document document = new Document();
PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, new FileStream("mypage.pdf", FileMode.Create));
document.Open();
HTMLWorker worker = new HTMLWorker(document);
worker.Parse(new StringReader(html));
document.Close();

Let us know if you have any further questions.

Answer 2

Hi Babiker Assie,

You can have the contents of your aspx pages in search results but there is some limitations with Azure cognitive Search and SharePoint Indexer such Indexing SharePoint .ASPX site content.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/make-site-content-searchable#show-contents-of-aspx-pages-in-search-results

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-howto-index-sharepoint-online#limitations-and-considerations

So I suggest you to use a Power Automate process to convert your aspx pages within the same document library or on other place.
You will found steps in this post https://sharepointstuff.com/2022/06/15/convert-sharepoint-pages-into-pdf/comment-page-1/

Best regards,

IM

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