PDF attributes not promoted to SharePoint library

[dmarcelop]

Uploading  .pdf files to SharePoint libraries fails to promote the Title field.  This is only observed with PDF files. All fields are promoted except the document title field.

[S. S]

Hi @,

Hope you are doing well. Thanks for writing in!

In case you are still looking for an explanation, here are my comments on it:

This behavior is due to SharePoint's limited support for property promotion with PDF files. Unlike Microsoft Office documents, where metadata such as the title is automatically extracted and mapped to corresponding SharePoint columns, PDFs do not receive the same treatment by default.

Understanding the Issue:

• Property Promotion: This refers to SharePoint's ability to extract metadata from documents and map them to library columns. While this works seamlessly for Office documents, it doesn't function the same way for PDFs.

• Title Field: In SharePoint, the Title column is a default metadata field. For Office documents, the document's title property is automatically promoted to this column upon upload. However, for PDFs, this automatic promotion doesn't occur, leading to an empty Title field in the library view.

Hope this clarifies your question.

Regards,
Souvik.