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Open the backend of your Sitefinity instance
Navigate to Administartion → Settings and click Advanced (your-site-domain/Sitefinity/Administration/Settings/Advanced)
Open the Hawksearch configuration
Under document size limit enter 4000KB
Save the changes
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Open the backend of your Sitefinity instance
Navigate to Content → Documents & Files
Upload files above the document size limit e.g. 10MB
Navigate to Administration → Search indexes (your-site-domain/Sitefinity/Administration/Search indexes)
Open your currently used and active Index
Select Documents from the scope. This will add the documents you have uploaded to the index
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During indexing the files are stripped and only the text content is extracted. Some files contain a lot of metadata or embedded resources (e.g. photos) so a 10MB .pdf may only contain 1MB of actual data. |
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