Thread: How to crawl image files like jpeg, gif, ...

Hey there mauriziog, I tried the approach that you specified and it worked fine (with some abnormalities, like if you try to search with the file name it doesnt return any results, but if you search with the extension jpg it gets them all) Next I will try it with filenet (if we can ever connect the IICE to filenet :S) Thanks alot for the fast reply

It was planned to search the image files according to their metadata. It`s a pity that Omnifind is not able to index such files. But anyway, thank you for your quick answer. Message was edited by: develoWorks

I am surprised when you say that Omnifind doesnt crawl image files. Inspite of my mimetypes set to exclude image/tiff it is still being picked up. Is it doing so because it is trying to crawl based off the metadata associated with those images. I have tried every possible scenario to limit the crawl space so that the image files dont get crawled and yet they are. I have posted couple of threads on this but to no response. Do you have any ideas?

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OmniFind doesn't index image files and I honestly have no idea why you would want to do so in an enterprise search arena. What would you search on? The only place where I can see applicability as far as indexing an "image" file, is for scanned document images. You could then use OCR (optical character recognition) to extract the text from the image. Other than that, the only other way it makes sense is if the images are in a...