Indexing of pdf and word docs with Plone4 and Windows - pdf

Question

I followed an instruction for indexing pdf on Plone(4) (and Windows 2008) , that was originaly written for Plone3:
http://plone.org/documentation/kb/enable-indexing-of-pdf-and-word-docs-with-windows-in-five-steps-occurs-three-minutes-without-problems
I got an error on he fiths step "Add Transform; Enter in ID: pdf_to_text", when I tried to add the Module: Products.PortalTransforms.transforms.pdf_to_text.
Here is the Report:
Traceback (innermost last):
Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 127, in publish
Module ZPublisher.mapply, line 77, in mapply
Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 47, in call_object
Module Products.PortalTransforms.TransformEngine, line 487, in manage_addTransform
Module Products.PortalTransforms.TransformEngine, line 254, in _mapTransform
Module Products.MimetypesRegistry.MimeTypesRegistry, line 220, in lookup
- __traceback_info__: ("'BROKEN'", 'BROKEN')
Module Products.MimetypesRegistry.MimeTypesRegistry, line 457, in split
MimeTypeException: Malformed MIME type (BROKEN)

Answer 1

Well, that is very old.
On Windows, the word indexing "Just Works" in Plone 4 if you have MS Office installed. PDF still needs xpdf.
Is pdftotext.exe on your PATH? It won't work if it isn't. Remember, if you have added it to the system-wide environment, you are still going to have to stop/start Zope to have the Zope process pick up the changed PATH: run Zope in the foreground, from a command window that you know has pdftotext on the path, and see what happens.