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December 14, 2018
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Embedded Index not working

  • December 14, 2018
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Hello,

Got an odd one.

My Client has a 14000+ page PDF Doc and has created an Embedded Index. Been doing this for years

Recently, some Win 10 PC's will use the Embedded Index and others still do a full search on the same Document.

No rhyme or reason.  All identical PC's.  We even logged in as the Administrator and the issue still exists.

Using all the latest Adobe Acrobat DC and Acrobat Reader DC Software.

Any help would be extremely appreciated.

Thank you,

Marc Schlesinger

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    Correct answer nonotmethanks

    The Adobe instructions for using Windows regedit appear to be incorrect (https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/enable-embedded-index-to-search-pdf.html)

    Don't create a key, what worked for me is go to the referenced

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\FeatureLockDown

    create instead a new DWORD named bToggleUseEmbeddedIndex and change the value to 1.

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    nonotmethanksCorrect answer
    Participant
    October 20, 2020

    The Adobe instructions for using Windows regedit appear to be incorrect (https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/enable-embedded-index-to-search-pdf.html)

    Don't create a key, what worked for me is go to the referenced

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\DC\FeatureLockDown

    create instead a new DWORD named bToggleUseEmbeddedIndex and change the value to 1.

      Zenlifestyle
      Zenlifestyle
      Participant
      June 2, 2021

      Many thanks.  Creating a new DWORD as suggeted worked a treat.

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      Anonymous
      December 21, 2018

      This appears to be because of APSB18-41. You can fix it with a registry edit: Steps to enable the embedded index in a PDF for searching?

      However, I'm not sure if this was disabled because of a security issue. Can someone from Adobe please chime in on this? There's not much information about it. We have a department here that uses embedded index PDFs with thousands of pages and who also perform searches in them regularly. Before we push out a registry fix, we'd like to know if this is a security hazard or not.

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      justinceo1
      Participant
      January 16, 2019

      Hi burritos, I'm in a similar situation but on mac platform and can't seem to get embedded index reenabled Embedded Index Issue, Help Needed. Have tried a couple things already

      any advice?

      davidc42822553
      davidc42822553
      Participant
      May 10, 2019

      The instructions to turn it back on again didn't work for me on the Mac (haven't tested Windows), because they talk about a FeatureLockDown.plist file, and adding it doesn't work (for me anyway).

      What did work for me (having Acrobat Pro 2017 and Reader DC) was to create the files (which were not present):

      /Library/Preferences/com.adobe.Acrobat.Pro.plist

      /Library/Preferences/com.adobe.Reader.plist

      and populate the appropriate key under the appropriate version (2017 or DC) in both of those, e.g., I created an com.adobe.Acrobat.Pro.plist as:

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

      <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

      <plist version="1.0">

      <dict>

          <key>2017</key>

          <dict>

              <key>FeatureLockdown</key>

              <dict>

                  <key>bToggleUseEmbeddedIndex</key>

                  <true/>

              </dict>

          </dict>

      </dict>

      </plist>

      Adobe presumably had a reason for disabling this feature, though APSB-18-41 does not explicitly mention it AFAICT, so be there may be a risk to re-enabling this feature if Adobe just turned it off rather than actually fixing the underlying code that uses the index and was possibly vulnerable.

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