Foxit PDF IFilter is an application designed to help users index a large amount of PDF documents and then quickly find text within these documents. The PDF documents can not only be files, but also email attachments or database records. Foxit PDF IFilter supports PDF 1.7 specification and can be used in many Microsoft search engines, such as Windows Indexing Service, MSN Desktop Search, Internet Information Server, SharePoint Portal Server, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), Site Server, Exchange Server, SQL Server and all other products based on Microsoft Search technology. With Foxit PDF IFilter, all these search engines can find PDF files with ease.

Why PDF IFilter?
PDF IFilter is necessary for several reasons listed below:
- Microsoft creates and maintains office file formats, such as .doc, .xls, .ppt, etc. However, many other file formats are created and maintained by other companies. For example, PDF was created by Adobe.
- With the advantages of security, reliability and accessibility, PDF is now being used by more and more people all over the world.
- PDF IFilter is a plug-in that allows Microsoft search engines to index PDF files so that they become searchable. Without an appropriate PDF IFilter, contents of a PDF file cannot be indexed.

Foxit PDF IFilter is favored by a large number of government organizations and well-known companies because of the following reasons:
- Foxit PDF IFilter helps to do a two-stage search – Index and Search, which makes finding information much easier.
- Foxit PDF IFilter supports multi-threading and makes full use of multi-CPU/core in a server.
- Foxit PDF IFilter supports native 64-bit code.
- Smaller and faster than other PDF IFilters.

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