I have been setting up a customers MindTouch 2009 site and I ran into an issue where I couldn’t search the contents of the PDF and Office 2007 attachments I had uploaded to MindTouch.

  I found I could search and find the titles of the documents, but not the contents.

Fortunately I had the #mindtouch irc.freenode.net channel to go to.  The people there are very helpful there.  It turns out that I needed to download and install IFilters for both PDF’s and Office 2007.

They directed me to IFilter.org, and once there I found a whole bunch of links for all different types of IFilters. 

The PDF link brought me to the Adobe site, and the Office Suites link brought me to the Microsoft site.  I downloaded each of the IFilters and then logged onto my Windows Server 2008 box to install.

NOTE:  I found out something interesting though.  It turns out that if you use the Debian/Linux VM’s you will not have any of these issues because they do not have IFilters and use various other tools to those conversions.  I have been told that the IFilters seem to be a better method, but that may be up for argument by people smarter than I.

Once on my server I just ran the IFilters exe files and after both installs went easy, I restarted the server.

Once restarted I went to the control panel under Cache Management and clicked on the “Rebuild Now” button and within a couple minutes all was good and I could now search the contents of PDF’s and Office 2007 documents.

NOTE:  I only had a small amount of attachments and very few pages.  It might take a longer time to rebuild for bigger sites.

I hope this helps any out there who is having the same issues.  I also want to remind people about the IRC support that can be had at the #mindtouch channel at irc.freenode.net.  It is well worth it and they people are VERY patient.