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Q&A Cannot search inside PDFs with MediaWiki

I have a MediaWiki server set up on WSL 2 with CirrusSearch and its dependencies. Everything is working fine, except searching inside of PDFs. I can search for filenames, but not PDF content. The P...

1 answer  ·  posted 30d ago by tarhalda‭  ·  last activity 30d ago by tarhalda‭

Question mediawiki pdf
#1: Initial revision by user avatar tarhalda‭ · 2024-04-16T13:43:40Z (30 days ago)
Cannot search inside PDFs with MediaWiki
I have a MediaWiki server set up on WSL 2 with CirrusSearch and its dependencies. Everything is working fine, except searching inside of PDFs. I can search for filenames, but not PDF content. The PDFs will display, so I'm pretty sure PDFHandler is working properly.
MediaWiki version: 1.41.1

I have tried: 
- Running all the setup scripts for ElasticSearch and CirrusSearch
- Deleting and re-uploading files to make sure they get indexed