Foxit PDF IFilter v1.0 is released now!

Foxit PDF IFilter is designed to help users to index a large amount of PDF documents and then quickly find text within these documents. The PDF documents can be files, email attachments or database records.

Release History

Version Number: 1.0.0.3213 Release Date: Aug 19, 2009

• Fixes a crash issue that is caused by embedded fonts.
• Adds the following registry settings in the installation program:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\14.0\Search\Setup\Filters\.pdf]

"Extension"=".pdf"
"FileTypeBucket"=dword:00000001
"MimeTypes"="application/pdf"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\14.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension\.pdf]

@="{987f8d1a-26e6-4554-b007-6b20e2680632}"

Version Number: 1.0.0.2411, Release Date: Dec 12, 2008

Fixed an error when indexing PDF files encrypted by AES with version 1.0.0.2405

Version Number: 1.0.0.2405, Release Date: Dec 05, 2008

Fixed an issue about getting heap errors with multi-threading.

Optimizes the text object extraction. This new version will only parse the overlapped text objects once.

Fixed an issue with certain hidden text that cannot be indexed.

Version Number: 1.0.0.1729, Release Date: May 29, 2008

This version adds two types of meta data - "Keywords" and "Subject", while the previous one only supports "Title" and Author".
Better embedded fonts control.

Version Number: 1.0.0.1504, Release Date: Mar 04, 2008

This version resolves the problem that under SPS2003 for 32-bit Windows, PDF documents cannot be indexed.

Version Number: 1.0.0.1425, Release Date: Feb 25, 2008

In previous version of Foxit PDF IFilter for 32-bit platform, there is an extra space between "server and Extensions" in the registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions

It caused the index not working under MOSS2007 of 32bit platform. This version has fixed it.

Version Number: 1.0.0.1122, Release Date: Nov 22, 2007

In previous version, there is no line break between two pages. Therefore, the last line of previous page is concatenated with the first line of next page. In this version, we put a CR+LF between the adjacent two pages.

In previous version, some Japanese characters cannot be indexed properly under 64bit platform. This version has fixed it.