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Search Engine Text Extraction - List of supported file types?

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Updated December 12, 2023
asked on February 14, 2023

Was trying to find out if Excel documents can be included in Search Engine Text extraction capabilities of the repository but I could not find a list of supported file types for this feature. Is there a list of what types of files you can extract text from?

https://doc.laserfiche.com/laserfiche.documentation/11/administration/en-us/Default.htm#../Subsystems/LFAdmin/Content/Search_Engine_Text_Extraction.htm?TocPath=Laserfiche%2520Administration%2520Guide%257CSearch%2520and%2520Indexing%2520Administration%257CIndexed%2520Searches%2520and%2520Indexing%257CSearch%2520Engine%2520Text%2520Extraction%257C_____0

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replied on February 15, 2023

Excel and Powerpoint are supported for sure.  I don't know how to display the list in Laserfiche Cloud, but the documentation you shared show you how to check the list for the on premise version.

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replied on February 15, 2023

I thought Laserfiche Self-Hosted already allowed you to do this.  Are you asking for Laserfiche Cloud?

 

 

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replied on February 15, 2023

Either Or. I was just looking for the list of document types supported and I do not see it in the documentation.

 

For example I doubt a CAD file is supported but is an Excel file supported? Is a PowerPoint supported, and so on.

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replied on February 15, 2023

Excel and Powerpoint are supported for sure.  I don't know how to display the list in Laserfiche Cloud, but the documentation you shared show you how to check the list for the on premise version.

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replied on February 15, 2023

Just tested it, works perfectly with Excel and Powerpoint.  

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replied on February 16, 2023

Oh I am understanding now. The list of supported document types is not publicly documented, I just need to look at an demo on-prem system to see the list. I see it now.

XLS is supported but XLSX is not, that was what I was looking for. Thank you!

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replied on February 16, 2023

Ok.  FYI... I imported an XLSX file in to Laserfiche Cloud and indexes the text no problem.

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replied on February 16, 2023

I don't see it in the supported file types list. Maybe Cloud is different than on-prem.

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replied on February 16, 2023

Yes, for Laserfiche Cloud the search engine handles Office documents.

For self-hosted Laserfiche, usually you need to install Office IFilters on the search engine machine. Newer versions of Windows do seem to have them installed out of the box, but depending on the image you use, that may not be true.

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replied on December 12, 2023

Will the Adobe iFilter v11 work on a Laserfiche 11 environment with Windows server 2019 instead of using iFilter v9. We seem to have errors on our server for PDF's and not sure which iFilter to install to make that stop. It seems to be a recent thing. I cannot verify which one is (or is not) installed currently. Still working on finding that on the server.

 

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replied on December 12, 2023

I am not sure about Windows Server 2019, but on a Windows Server 2022 machine I have that is a fresh install, it has doc, docx, pdf, ppt, and xls listed by default. Looks like the Microsoft Office iFilter pack would need to be installed to support pptx and xlsx.

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