Disable PDF Tika/Lucene Indexing in AEM6

[a_lex_]

Hi,

We are working on disabling PDF indexing with tika/lucene and cannot find a guide for AEM 6.0. Anyone able to explain how to do this?

Basically just need to be able to edit and get the instance to use a custom tika-config.xml

Thanks!

Alex

[a_lex_ · Accepted solution]

Figured it out -

For anyone trying to do this: https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/kb/how-to-optimize-lucene-index-to-gain-efficiency.html

Need to extract the tika-config.xml from the bundle .jar file, edit it, and merge the changed config file back in. They have an example config file on that page as well.

[smacdonald2008]

Thanks for posting you solution. Also note that anyone interested in a deeper understanding of Lucene Indexes - there will be a GEMs session on this in Jan . Sign up here: 

AEM Gems - APAC Q&A session - Oak Lucene Indexes

[leeasling]

Rather than doing that, you could potentially utilize the path field of the workflow launcher to prevent it from running.  Maybe try something like this:

/content/dam/(/.*/)renditions/original(?!\\.pdf)\\.+

I haven't verified that this would work, but it certainly would make more sense than extracting a jar, editing a config file etc etc.

[Opkar_Gill]

Hi Alex,

did you get this to work? The reason I ask is that the article is written for AEM5.x/CRX2, so not sure it would still apply to AEM6. Might be worth raising a daycare ticket to find out if this is still supported.

Regards,

Opkar

[a_lex_]

Opkar, please see my follow up above - it works

Thanks,

Alex

[Opkar_Gill]

Hi Alex,

I saw your reply, I was just wondering if this is a supported configuration for AEM6, best to check with daycare. As it may cause issues if you deploy this in production and daycare say it is not a supported configuration.

Regards,

Opkar