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Searching data attached to image files


  • Having loaded our 1,800 pdf documents (magazines etc) on to our website, and successfully implemented WPFTS to search within them, we are now turning our attention to the 40,000 historic photographs in our archive. Around half have been digitised, mainly as jpegs but with some tifs, and we are working on the remainder.
    Each photo will, in due course, be annotated with a description and I would like to know if other users have experience of using WPFTS to search this type of information. Currently, the digital images are stored on hard drives, and the information is on spreadsheets, but we are researching software to combine the two, to enable the images to be published on our website, and for the scanning and researching process to be suitable for collaborative teamworking.


  • You can upload images to the WP Media Library as well and add the image description to the image. WPFTS Pro can search these images by the description then.

    Alternatively, you can create a special post type and upload images as "Featured Image" to each of these posts, and put the description and special information to the post_content or additional meta field(s) - depending on the number of data fields and type of information.

    In both cases, WPFTS Pro will help you with the search.

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    @EpsilonAdmin Thanks for quick response and question.
    Yes, my hope was to use the standard WP search widget - but I haven't explored any other option. If there's a better way I'm happy to get guidance 😀

    My site has been recently re-created in WordPress after quite a few years of running under Joomla and that Joomla installation had a free plugin called jiFiles (?) which did the document scanning/indexing. A standard search, scoped on file name or a string from within file content, would pull up a list of file names each hyperlinked to the file itself to easily click on for in-browser viewing (or possibly downloading).

    I appreciate that there are other WordPress plugins that offer a full document management system but they have a much larger feature set than I need and are also majorly expensive for a small non-profit community web site.

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    Great, thanks!

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    Yes, you can do that. But it will need some coding.

    First of all, we need to extract a PDF link or file path from the post. It should be done at indexing stage, inside the 'wpfts_index_post' hook function.

    After the link/path extraction, we should read this file and extract the text information from it. It still should be done inside the same hook.

    Okay, when we have the text, we put it to one of the index clusters (your preference) and let it to the indexer to make its job as well.

    The final code will depend from the way how you have attached the PDF file to the parent post. It can be done using very different ways.

    Please give me some more explanation of this and I will post the semi-ready code here.

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