PDFlib TET PDF IFilter 4.0 Manual

5 Troubleshooting
5.1 TET PDF IFilter does not work at all
If TET PDF IFilter does not seem to work at all check the items below.
Is TET PDF IFilter correctly registered? You can use the command line tool FiltReg.exe to
check the correct registration of TET PDF IFilter. The program lists all file extensions
that have IFilters associated with them by printing the file extension and the name of
the associated IFilter DLL. The FiltReg.exe program is installed with Microsoft Visual
Studio 8 and is also included in the Windows SDK for Windows 7. For more information
see
msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms692537(VS.85).aspx
Note For testing the 64-bit edition of TET PDF IFilter the 64-bit version of FiltReg.exe is required. To
get the 64-bit version it is necessary to install the Windows SDK on a 64-bit machine; otherwise
the 64-bit tools will not be installed.
If TET PDF IFilter is correctly registered, the output of FiltReg.exe includes lines similar to
the following:
Filters loaded by extension:
...
.pdf --> PDFlib TET PDF IFilter 32-bit (C:\Program Files\PDFlib\TET PDF IFilter
4.0\bin\TETPDFIFilter.dll)
If TET PDF IFilter is not correctly registered you must register it manually (see Section
»Manual installation«, page 6).
If you have Windows Desktop Search installed, you can test proper IFilter registration
as follows: in the notification area of the Windows taskbar, right-click the indexing
icon , and click Windows Desktop Search Options..., Advanced, File Types. This will produce
a long list of file types and associated filters. In this list, scroll to pdf in the
Extension column. The corresponding entry in the Filter Description column should read
PDFlib TET PDF IFilter 32-bit (or 64-bit, as appropriate).
IFilter Explorer. Another useful tool for analyzing IFilter registration issues is Citeknet’s
IFilter Explorer. It examines all registered IFilters in the system and also takes into
account product-specific registry entries for IFilter clients such as SQL Server, Share-
Point, etc. You can download IFilter Explorer at
www.citeknet.com/Products/IFilters/IFilterExplorer/tabid/62/Default.aspx
TET PDF IFilter and Adobe Acrobat. If you install Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat after
TET PDF IFilter (or run Acrobat’s automatic repair mode), they will overwrite the TET
PDF IFilter registry entries. You can correct the situation by running the TET PDF IFilter
installer in repair mode, or by manually registering the TET PDF IFilter DLL according to
Section »Manual installation«, page 6.
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