Search Scope with pdf files metadata

Hi All:

I face the following issue with MOSS 2007 search:

I have a site column DocumentType attached to a document library. I have both word and pdf documents in the library, and in all the documents, I have set the column value to UserGuide.

I have mapped this crawled property to a managed property (docytype) and created a search scope with the rule: docutype = UserGuide.

If I search for the word UserGuide (without any scope), both the word and pdf documents are listed. This shows that the metadata has been crawled in both file types.

When I use the Search Scope and search for words in the pdf file, MOSS is not showing any results.

However, if I use the same Search Scope and search for words in the word files, MOSS is properly showing the results.

I have installed the IFilter v6.0 and has enabled searching pdf type files. The pdf type files could be individually searched without the scope.

I shall be glad to know if anyone has faced this problem and how this could be solved.

Thanks,

Murugan.

[1075 byte] By [MuruganN] at [2008-1-12]