ZFilter: the .ZIP indexing filter for Microsoft Windows servers.
ZFilter is a plug-in indexing filter for Windows servers. It enables them to full-text index the contents of .ZIP archives created with WinZip, PKZIP, or any other compression program that uses the PKWARE compression format.
SharePoint, Site Server, Exchange Server, SQL Server and Internet Information Server (using the Indexing Service) can read and index text and properties from Microsoft Office, HTML and plain text files. Indexing of any other file type requires the installation of an appropriate filter: examples include Adobe's PDF IFilter, Microsoft's XML filter and the Mp3 Filter by Meticulus. .ZIP files are no exception: for the server to index them, you need ZFilter.
ZFilter is compatible with all filters we have tried. If a third party filter has been installed correctly, ZFilter uses it as needed to filter files extracted from .ZIP archives.
Server Products supported:
- SharePoint Portal Server 2001 or 2003
- SharePoint Team Services or Windows SharePoint Services 2003
- Internet Information Server (using Indexing Service/Index Server)
- Exchange Server 2000 or 2003
- SQL Server 2000
- Site Server 3.0
