Title: Make documents (descriptions) searchable
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Make documents (descriptions) searchable

 *  Resolved [hansguido](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hansguido/)
 * (@hansguido)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-documents-descriptions-searchable/)
 * Hi guys, great plugin. Key question I have is how I can enable search so that
   visitors can search through the documents using one or more keywords.
 * Now when I use the standard WP search no documents are included in the results.
 * Thanks for answering!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/document-gallery/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/document-gallery/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Dan Rossiter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danrossiter/)
 * (@danrossiter)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-documents-descriptions-searchable/#post-6873688)
 * Hi hansguido,
 * It’s actually funny you bring this up because I am in the early stages of developing
   a plugin that would enable exactly this. Unfortunately, there is no such option
   with core WP functionality and this functionality is way outside the scope of
   Document Gallery.
 * Such a plugin would need to parse the files and find the text. With plain text
   files that wouldn’t be too hard, but think about trying to get the text out of
   a PDF or a Word document. The plugin would need intimate knowledge about how 
   that file is encoded and how to pull out text which could then be searched. Definitely
   not an easy thing to do 🙂
 * Anyway, sorry for the rambling. Short answer is, there is no such functionality
   in WP core or any existing plugin that I know of. [This (paid) plugin](https://searchwp.com/features/)
   does appear to support searching some PDFs, though looks like only PDFs that 
   aren’t the result of scanning in a document.
 * -Dan
 *  Thread Starter [hansguido](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hansguido/)
 * (@hansguido)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-documents-descriptions-searchable/#post-6873786)
 * Hi Dan, thanks for the reply! Making the descriptions of the documents searchable
   would already help. So not the content of the documents themselves. Is that an
   option?

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-documents-descriptions-searchable/#post-6873786)
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