SearchWP Xpdf Integration is an add-on for the SearchWP plugin that boosts PDF content indexing on your WordPress site. It uses the xpdf toolkit (pdftotext) to reliably extract text from PDFs, including those that other libraries miss, so your visitors can find more relevant results faster.
- Enhances SearchWP by extracting text from PDFs using xpdf/pdftotext
- Improves accuracy for complex or tricky PDF files
- Indexes content from embedded and uploaded PDFs
- Better handling of PDFs that standard parsers can’t read
- Supports large PDF files with efficient text extraction
- Respects SearchWP’s indexing rules and sources
- Works alongside native PDF parsing for maximum coverage
- Speeds up search results with richer PDF data
- Compatible with WordPress custom post types and media
- Plug-and-play setup with minimal configuration
- Respects multilingual and Unicode text where supported by xpdf
- Improves relevance scoring for PDF-based content
- Secure, local processing—no third-party services required
- Lightweight add-on with low server overhead
- Seamless integration with existing SearchWP settings and engine rules
