Friday
Aug132010
SharePoint enable iFilter for TIFF OCR
Friday, August 13, 2010 at 9:23PM In some companies, paper documents are scanned into TIFF formats and stored electronically. To search for them, you'll need to enable the TIFF OCR iFilter to allow SharePoint to index TIFF documents.
1. Install Windows Server feature Windows TIFF IFilter:
2. Enable OCR filter
3. You may need to restart the machine
4. Force SharePoint to perform a full crawl from Search Administration
5. Search for your file - here, I'm searching for "Therefore"
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Reader Comments (3)
John, Did you have any problems with this; I have been trying to get tiff iFilter sorted for a day or so no and whilst it is indexing the image / document libraries it is not returning any details within my search. How clear does the source have to be?
I'd suggest only rely on black text on white - colour areas don't come out well. Even in my above example you can see the indexed text isn't a perfect match of the image text
e.g. "fo".
See more notes on:
http://blogs.sharepointdam.com/jen/archive/2010/09/20/leverage-the-free-windows-tiff-ifilter-for-ocr-in-sharepoint.aspx