MOSS Search PDF 64-bit using IFilter 9

Install the PDF Ifilter 9 for 64-bit

1. Download and extract the contents of "PDFiFilter64installer.zip" to your local drive.
2. Double click "PDFFilter64installer.msi" to launch the installer.
3. Follow the instructions in the installer wizard to complete the installation.
4. After installing the PDF iFilter, it is recommended that you set your system PATH environment variable to the "bin" folder of the "Ifilter" installation. For example, from the "Control Panel\System\Advanced\Environment Variables" tab, append to PATH "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe PDF iFilter 9 for 64-bit platforms\bin\" and then restart the computer.
5. Follow the Sharepoint IFilter Configuration Guide
   

Add the PDF extension to Search File Types

1. SharePoint Server Search Administration page by adding ‘pdf’ to list of File Types in Search Administration->File Types

Add the PDF File Icon to MOSS

1. Download the icon for pdf file from http://www.adobe.com/images/pdficon_small.gif , save it to \TEMPLATE\IMAGES directory and name it pdficon_small.gif.
2. Open the docicon.xml file from .\template\xml .
3. Add a new Mapping element to the ByExtension element.
4. Save the docicon.xml file.
5. Restart IIS using iisreset command line.

Restart all SharePoint services as well as IIS.

1. Run these command-lines:
   “net stop osearch”. Wait for success message.
   “net start osearch”. Wait for success message.
2. Restart IIS using iisreset command line and wait for success message.

Re-Crawl

Make sure that you Full Crawl !!!

*** Troubleshooting ***

Important step that will solve this error message "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."

Make sure to change the \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\12.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension\.pdf to the GUID {E8978DA6-047F-4E3D-9C78-CDBE46041603}. The original value was {4C904448-74A9-11D0-AF6E-00C04FD8DC02}. (thanks to Russell Wright for that one)

URLs:

http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobat/win/9.x/PDFiFilter64installer.zip
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/832809
http://www.adobe.com/special/acrobat/configuring_pdf_ifilter_for_ms_sharepoint_2007.pdf
http://www.adobe.com/images/pdficon_small.gif
http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2009/01/installing-adobes-64-bit-pdf-ifilter-9.html