Creating FullText Index on Docx files in a FileTable

Question

I'm working on a document storage. Therefore I plan to use SqlServer 2012 with file tables. Now after some tests it seems like the SqlServer only indexes doc and not docx files.

I also installed the Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0.

Does somebody know how to get a docx support ? Perhaps there wold also be a way to get pdf support ??

Many Thanks in advance Boas

score 21 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 01 '12 at 17:08

Finally someone posted me the solution. I post the solution to my own question because i think someone may have similar problems

Install the Microsoft Filter Pack 2.0

than

EXEC sp_fulltext_service 'update_languages'; 
EXEC sp_fulltext_service 'load_os_resources', 1;
EXEC sp_fulltext_service 'restart_all_fdhosts';

After installing the filters, run this to refresh the list. EXEC sp_fulltext_service 'update_languages';

You will also likely need to refresh the filters and restart the FTS service launcher: EXEC sp_fulltext_service 'load_os_resources', 1; EXEC sp_fulltext_service 'restart_all_fdhosts';

Finally, you’ll need to do a complete rebuild/refresh of any existing full-text indexes (see ALTER FULLTEXT INDEX) to use the new filters.

s. SqlServer Forum

Here is the official guidance from Microsoft: **How to register Microsoft Filter Pack IFilters with SQL Server** [link](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/945934/how-to-register-microsoft-filter-pack-ifilters-with-sql-server) — aquanilium, May 10 '18 at 03:40
There is a service pack for this filter pack which still (2022) installs on top of it, and so I guess still probably includes useful updates: https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=2460041 — MikeBeaton, Aug 11 '22 at 11:04

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 16 '13 at 08:44

As mentioned above, install the Microsoft Filter Pack.

To check that it has installed correctly and what files types are currently supported you can run the following sql statement;

SELECT * FROM sys.fulltext_document_types

This gives you a list of file types supported by your database.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 11 '22 at 11:08

Since the original question also asks about PDF, some instructions are here, but a very brief summary is:

Download filter from ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobat/win/11.x/PDFFilter64Setup.msi, then install it
Add C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe PDF iFilter 11 for 64-bit platforms\bin to the system PATH variable

Other steps as for the Office filter pack in the accepted answer here (except that the PDF instructions include an extra step EXEC sp_fulltext_service 'verify_signature', 0 after the load_os_resources step, I am not sure if this is necessary or not).

Creating FullText Index on Docx files in a FileTable

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