MS Filter Pack released !
I'm pleased to announce that after months of blood, sweat and toil, the MS Filter Pack is finally available !!! The package can be downloaded from :
Contents:
The filter pack includes the following IFilters:
· Metro (.docx, .docm, .pptx, .pptm, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb)
· Zip (.zip)
· OneNote (.one)
· Visio (.vdx, .vsd, .vss, .vst, .vdx, .vsx, .vtx)
Supported Products:
· SPS2003, MOSS2007, Search Server 2008, Search Server 2008 Express
· WSSv3
· Exchange 2005
· SQL 2005, SQL 2008
· Windows Desktop Search 3.01, WDS 4
Overview:
· The Filter Pack installs the above IFilters on the machine
· Each IFilter is registered with Windows Indexing Service
· Each product above has a corresponding KB to describe how to register the filters
Q&A:
“I noticed <product X> is not listed as a supported product, why is it not included?”
- When we created the project plan we came up with the list of Microsoft Search products that we would be supporting. During the project lifecycle we’ve tested to ensure that the Filter Pack works properly with each of these products. We will work to determine if any new Search products can be supported in the future.
“Is the Filter Pack localized for <language y>?”
- The Filter Pack will be localized in 36 different languages (see below). It has been passed off for localization – details will be posted as they become available. At the time of release (12/18), the Filter Pack will available in en-us only.
Fully Localized SKU Languages |
Language Pack Languages |
Arabic |
Bulgarian |
Brazilian |
Croatian |
Chinese (SC) |
Estonian |
Chinese (TC) |
Hindi |
Czech |
Latvian |
Danish |
Lithuanian |
Dutch |
Romanian |
English |
Serbian (Latin) |
Finnish |
Slovak |
French |
Slovenian |
German |
Ukrainian |
Greek |
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Hebrew |
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Hungarian |
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Italian |
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Japanese |
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Korean |
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Norwegian (Bokmal) |
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Polish |
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Portuguese |
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Russian |
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Spanish |
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Swedish |
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Thai |
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Turkish |
“Is the Filter Pack available for x64/x86?”
- The Filter Pack will be available in both x64 and x86 – there are two separate downloads (same location).
“What about the Tiff/MODi IFilter”
- Unfortunately, at the time of release, the TIFF filter is not shipped with the Filter Pack. We do understand how important
the issue is for our customers and will be working on providing an alternative solution.
Comments
Anonymous
December 18, 2007
PingBack from http://msdnrss.thecoderblogs.com/2007/12/18/ms-filter-pack-released/Anonymous
December 18, 2007
I'm pleased to announce that after months of blood, sweat and toil, the MS Filter Pack is finallyAnonymous
December 18, 2007
I'm pleased to announce that after months of blood, sweat and toil, the MS Filter Pack is finallyAnonymous
December 19, 2007
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December 19, 2007
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December 20, 2007
Deb, in http://blogs.msdn.com/ifilter/archive/2007/03/24/indexing-xps-documents-with-moss-2007.aspx#5424346">http://blogs.msdn.com/ifilter/archive/2007/03/24/indexing-xps-documents-with-moss-2007.aspx#5424346 you said the filter registration is on your radar, so I thought it is still not possible to use XPS inside of WSS 3.0?!? What do I have to do to use XPS on WSS 3.0? http://blogs.msdn.com/ifilter/archive/2007/03/24/indexing-xps-documents-with-moss-2007.aspx describes only the way for MOSS 2007. Just to speculate to get it done: I install the XPS Essential Pack, then I follow the instruction in http://support.microsoft.com/?id=946338 and use .XPS and {1E4CEC13-76BD-4ce2-8372-711CB6F10FD1}??? If yes, any problems with foreign languages? Thanks for your help! MikeAnonymous
December 20, 2007
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December 21, 2007
Is this filter pack supposed to do Full Text searches? We have it installed and it doesn't return results for information contained within these filetypes.Anonymous
December 27, 2007
I also encoutered same problem. Who can tell me how to solve it? Thanks!Anonymous
December 27, 2007
Are you refering to SQL full text searches?Anonymous
December 28, 2007
Have any of you been able to get the onenote documents to appear in MOSS searches?Anonymous
January 03, 2008
We are running SQL2005 in 32bit mode on a Windows 2003 x64 Server. I see in the event log that the Filter Pack was installed, but even after the restart of the server, the files types are not listed. select document_type, path from sys.fulltext_document_types The Fulltext Indexes uses language "neutral." Could that be my problem? Or is it the x32 SQL on a x64 Platform?Anonymous
January 03, 2008
I've got the Adobe pdf filter installed and MOSS returns text within the document. Is the filter pack also supposed to do this with these document types also.Anonymous
January 03, 2008
David, the filter pack does not include a pdf filter. Its only available from Adobe and FOXIT. BTW, did you get the SQL full text search to work ? Thnx, Deb.Anonymous
January 03, 2008
Eric, we don’t support mixed mode installations. The Filter Pack version must match the OS architecture. Hence: 32-bit SQL, 64-bit Filter Pack, 64-bit OS won’t work (as attempted below). HTH, Deb.Anonymous
January 08, 2008
I guess I stated my question wrong. I was wondering if MOSS 2007 does full text searching on these types of documents (docx, vsd [which the crawler states the wrong IFilter is installed], zip, etc.) because the crawler is not picking up the content in these files. Does MOSS do a full text search on the document types listed above?Anonymous
January 08, 2008
David, MOSS does do a full text search for docx and vsd files. There was slight mistake in the FilterPack KB where the location to put the one of the registry keys was wrong. Can you please give it a shot after reading the "Errata to Filter Pack KB" published on this site?Anonymous
January 09, 2008
It appears the correction is only for a one note type and doesn't mention anything about vsd or docx types.Anonymous
January 10, 2008
David, the first correction applies to all the filters.You should set the values under this reg key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftOffice Server12.0SearchSetupContentIndexCommonFiltersExtension The CLSIDs of the all the filters except OneNote is correct. HTH, Deb.Anonymous
January 14, 2008
Deb, Here is the response from the crawl logs after running the errata. Crawled (The filtering process could not process this item. This might be because you do not have the latest file filter for this type of item. Install the corresponding filter and retry your crawl. )Anonymous
January 14, 2008
Deb, I re-ran my crawl it the full text search on vsd file works! Whats the story on zip files? Thanks for the help.Anonymous
January 14, 2008
On my test system I can confirm that .docx files contained in a .zip file are filtered. Search results do show up in a MOSS 2007 in this case. However: .doc and .txt files included in a .zip archive are not filtered. I also used "ifilttst /i test.zip /v 3 /d" and examined the resulting .dmp file. This confirmed that only the .docx file was accessed. Any hint? (.txt and .doc files themselves are filtered, of course)Anonymous
January 16, 2008
I'm configuring a sharepoint search site, that should support indexing of tiff documents. Unfortunately, this is no longer support in MOSS 2007. Does anyone has any experience with tiff ifilters?Anonymous
January 28, 2008
Currently there is a problem filtering Office97-2003 files within the Zip package. We're looking into the issue. There are no OOB TIFF filters in MOSS2007 - we're evaluating some solutions presently.I'll post an update once we have an ETA.Anonymous
February 03, 2008
TIFF filter is important as this gets some OCR-like features.Anonymous
March 13, 2008
Does the iFIlter for OneNote work on a x64 system (Windows 2008/MOSS2008)? It does not appear to.Anonymous
April 02, 2008
Is this included in Vista SP1 or Office 2007 SP1? Thanks.Anonymous
April 02, 2008
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May 09, 2008
This question had been asked a month ago already. My customer urgently needs this. Is there ANYTHING except "sorry again" I can tell them? Thx FrankAnonymous
May 12, 2008
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May 16, 2008
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May 21, 2008
As i see now May 2008 and i dont found any localization for this filters. Interesting why we dont use docx and 2007 office...Anonymous
June 16, 2008
This may have been answered previously so I'm sorry if it is redundant but I'm having trouble extracting text from a .docx file with the x64 filter pack and FiltDump. This works fine on a x32 machine and yes, the x64 machine is completely 64 bit (Win Server 2003, SQL 2005) I get the following error: Error 0x80004005 loading IFilter Anyone else have a similar issue? ThanksAnonymous
July 20, 2008
Captaris TIFF iFilter for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Search Server Express and Microsoft Search Server 2008. see http://www.captaris.com/tiff_ifilter/index.html Best Regads CharlyAnonymous
July 20, 2008
Captaris TIFF iFilter for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Search Server Express and Microsoft Search Server 2008. see http://www.captaris.com/tiff_ifilter/index.html Best Regads CharlyAnonymous
September 24, 2008
How will Office documents of previous version be handled? This pack does not explicitly list .doc, .xls as supported. For example the text extracted from a .docx is fine, but from a .doc is not - words are split ('wit h' instead of 'with') for no reason (no break of any kind exists). I believe, that before the filter pack, IFilters for office documents were part of a Windows installation. Have those been removed when I installed the filter pack? Thanks. tjk :)Anonymous
November 17, 2008
Post Infrastructure update and hotfixes, attempting to crawl VSD files and getting that error: Crawled (The filtering process could not process this item. This might be because you do not have the latest file filter for this type of item. Install the corresponding filter and retry your crawl. ) (by the way ... it is a "success message" rather an an error (can you finally once and for all FIX that?? It's So Sloppy!) This is 64 bit Windows SErver 2003 R2 multi processor (2-16 depending on the server on the farm) ... I see the latest download date is Oct 08 assumes you fixed something ... or did you break something instead?Anonymous
November 17, 2008
Post Infrastructure update and hotfixes, attempting to crawl VSD files and getting that error: Crawled (The filtering process could not process this item. This might be because you do not have the latest file filter for this type of item. Install the corresponding filter and retry your crawl. ) (by the way ... it is a "success message" rather an an error (can you finally once and for all FIX that?? It's So Sloppy!) This is 64 bit Windows SErver 2003 R2 multi processor (2-16 depending on the server on the farm) ... I see the latest download date is Oct 08 assumes you fixed something ... or did you break something instead?Anonymous
December 29, 2008
Does any body know what all additional properties are supported by Filter Pack 2007 which were not present in Filter Pack 2003. Is there any documentation available for Filter Pack 2007.Anonymous
December 29, 2008
AFAIK, there was only one filter pack, which was released in 2007. Are you referring to Office 2003 ifilters ?Anonymous
December 30, 2008
Typo in my earlier question, yes deb I was referring to office 2003 ifilters. I need to know what all additional properties are supported in Filter Pack 2007 which were not part of Office 2003 ifilters.Anonymous
December 30, 2008
UJ, the Filter pack ships the ifilter for office 2007 documents. It does not ship the office 2003 ifilter as this is shipped with the OS. I don't believe we have a detailed list of properties that can be handled by both the filters - it's usually whatever properties are supported by the document format. I'll ask around to see if I can find an official list.Anonymous
January 06, 2009
Hi Deb, any luck in getting list of properties/keys for each IFilter in Filter Pack 2007?Anonymous
March 24, 2009
It seems that this filter pack does not dump the contents of embeded objects (i.e. an excel embeded in the body of a word document). I beleive that there is a version available for sharepoint which will also filter the embeded content. Can you point me in the right direction?Anonymous
March 24, 2009
Paul, i think the issue is fixed in the december cumulative update - can you plase give it a shot ? http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/12/17/announcing-december-cumulative-update-for-office-sharepoint-server-2007-and-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0.aspx regards, Deb.Anonymous
April 15, 2009
I have tested this on a Vista 64 bit system and on XP 32 bit system. IFilter does not work with .docx files. So, is there a fix?Anonymous
April 20, 2009
Hello? Microsoft? Can you tell me if IFilters for .DOCX files work on Vista x64? Is this BLOG dead, IFilters project forgotten about, or just embarrassingly does not work?Anonymous
April 21, 2009
Hi, Jim. Sorry it took a while to get back to your comment. All of the filters should be working on Vista. Can you be more specific with what you're seeing? All of our testing shows the filters are working correctly. Have you installed the December CU, listed above?Anonymous
April 22, 2009
Well I now believe it is my problem. Yesterday I ran Citeknet.IFilterExplorer.x64 on my system and did not see DOCX listed. I ran the tool on an associates VISTA system and DOCX was listed as processed by offfiltx.dll. Two others with Vista64 also had the dll. I searched for that dll on my system and could not find it! I am on another project for the next few days so I've not been able to explorer this further. Is there a secret to installing the dll if I copy it from another system? Do you think this is my problem? Our IT dept says my system has all of the current updates. In appreciation for your response - THANKS!Anonymous
April 22, 2009
Jim, copying the dll should be fine provided the registry entries from your last installation was not corrupted. The safe thing to do will be to reinstall filter pack.Make sure the ifilter explorer shows docx as a listed type.Anonymous
May 04, 2009
Hello Deb! I reinstalled MS Office 2007. It still did not correct my problem. I installed office2007sp2-kb953195-fullfile-en-us.exe and that did not help. I had someone else run my test and it failed processing DOCX files the same as it did on my system. All I want to do is extract the text content from various MS Office documents as well as others from within a C# program. The Office documents are the short coming. I am trying the following "Code Project" example as a starting point. It works fine for .DOC files but fails for .DOCX files. Can you lead me to a means of successfully using MS supplied I-Filters to pull the text from .DOCX files from a C# program? (I running Vista 64, but this needs to run on a wide range of PCs.) Thanks, Jim http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/IFilterReader.aspx?fid=1532771&df=90&mpp=25&noise=3&sort=Position&view=QuickAnonymous
May 05, 2009
Jim,can you please try the following:
- Check the directory : D:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedFilters and ensure offfiltx.dll is there
- Use FileMon and Regmon with a "filter" set on offfiltx.dll and see if there are any errors.
- Use filtdump that ships with windows SDK to filter the word files and send us the error code. thanks, Deb.
Anonymous
May 05, 2009
Deb, Sorry, the only thing I can do is verify that the directory location for offfiltx.dll. And it's in: C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedFilters Otherwise I am running Vista 64, both FileMon and RegMon don't work in that environment. They issues a warning to use ProcessMon then end. Process Mon does not have a filter for DLLs. So I filtered on the path of the DLL and the test program. I see no references to offfiltx in the trace output. The non DOCX test cases work and do extract text from DOC files and PDFs. I checked with a co-employee who has the Windows SDK v6 installed but can't find anything by name of filtdump. I'm stuck?Anonymous
May 05, 2009
Jim, just wanted to clarify whether you can find pptx and xlsx files when you search in Vista x64 ? BTW, do you have an email we can reach you at ? -Deb.Anonymous
May 06, 2009
Good morning Deb, I installed the SDK for Vista. No filtdump was included. I did ask another co-employee not running Vista and he found it on his system and he said he could see the text of his documents with various attributes. So it would seem the big problem here is Vista! Yes I do have email. If you could, can you remove it before posting this note. j g h at m e t a f i l e dot c o mAnonymous
May 06, 2009
Deb, More info - The source of these programs were from a non Vista system (XP 32 bit). I ran them on my 64 bit Vista system. I ran FiltDump on a docx file. The result is: "Error 0x80004005 loading IFilter" I ran FiltReg and it did NOT list .docx at all. It did list .doc files as processed by "Microsoft Office Filter (%systemroot%system32OffFilt.dll)". Again, ThanksAnonymous
May 07, 2009
I guess I should briefly describe what I have found to close loose ends. The IFilter loaded on Vista may very well work OK with MS applications that are matched for the OS and platform (32/64). My issue surfaces when I attempt to process a DOCX file from a 32 bit application on a 64 bit OS. My limited understanding of this (I mean limited) is that when the new IFilters (which handle DOCX and other X files) are installed, the system register entries are not setup to handle them when the 32 bit to 64 bit crossover lookup takes place. The cross links are missing in the registry. I would like to thank Josh of MS for his very informative and skilled help in resolving this situation. And Deb for hanging in and supporting this blog.Anonymous
June 21, 2009
I face the same problem with SQL Server 2008 full text search with .docx, I can't find text inside those files, it works for .doc my operation system is windows vista 64, any fix to this problem. Thanks, Nabeel.Anonymous
June 23, 2009
Nabeel, Could you give some more details as to your problem? I assume you've installed the Filter Pack. Have you followed the instructions for registering the filters with SQL Search? They can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;945934Anonymous
July 02, 2009
I'm running into similar problems to the last few posters with .docx not being indexed by SQL Server 2005 FullText Search. I'm running Vista Enterprise SP1. I installed the Microsoft Filter Pack from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=60C92A37-719C-4077-B5C6-CAC34F4227CC&displaylang=en I then registered it with SQL Server 2005 to work with Full Text Search, using these instructions: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;945934 I did the same with the PDF IFilter from Adobe. The end result is that the Office 2007 file formats such as .docx are not indexed by FTS. But no such problem with PDF files! If I run the query: select document_type, path from sys.fulltext_document_types where document_type = '.docx' I get: C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedFiltersofffiltx.dll So any ideas why this should continue to be failing? Reading this thread and seeing the same problem being over a year ago with arguably no solution does not seem very promising.Anonymous
September 07, 2009
Hi i am unable to search/filter some content in my .xlsx file. I had latest version of offfiltx dll registered with me.Anonymous
January 06, 2010
Yes I Installed the IFilter and follow the instruction in two operating systems Windows 7 and Windows Vista but no luck to find content in .docx or any office 2007 files, the FTS is working fine with pdf,txt,and office 2003 files.Anonymous
February 22, 2010
same problem here...cannot read .docx filesAnonymous
March 11, 2010
On Windows Server 2008 (64-bit), I am failing to create an instance of the Office 2007 Filter for Office Documents (CoCreateInstance against offfiltx.dll) After reading the above posts, I tried the FiltDump.exe (downloaded the Windows Search 3.X SDK) against a Word 2007 document (.docx) and got the following error: Error 0x80030002 loading IFilter Is there anything else I need to do/install to get the filtdump.exe to work? Could someone shed some light here? Thanking you in advance. Best Regards, VVAnonymous
February 07, 2012
The 32bit Office 2010 Filter Packs will not install on Windows 7 x64. This is a problem for 32bit software that needs an IFilter interface to access the plain text for .docx files and others. Since the default Windows 7 x64 supports 32/64 for .doc files, why is this a problem now?