Can I manually map a file extension to an IFilter?

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Published on 2010-02-01T00:48:00Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 0:01 UTC
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I'm working with Microsoft Indexing Service. I have purchased a third-party IFilter to extract XMP metadata from Adobe products. I'm having trouble getting it to work, and it occurs to me that the problem is that I don't actually have the Adobe software installed on my server, so the IFilters are not mapped.

Put another way, there's nothing to tell the indexer that ".psd" files should use this DLL rather than the default DLL.

Is it possible to manually map file extensions to the IFilter you want to use?

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