Crawl Content of PDF Files When Creating Sitemaps

It is possible to both analyze PDF files for links and include PDF files in sitemaps.

Crawl and Analysis of PDF Files

First we need to enable a special setting to crawl content inside PDF files:

crawl PDF files

After this we point our sitemap generator to a PDF to TEXT conversion tool executable:

pdf files conversion tool

After having configured above, crawl your website as you normally would when using A1 Sitemap Generator - the scan will include analysis of PDF files like this example file.

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This help page is maintained by Thomas Schulz

As one of the lead developers, his hands have touched most of the code in the software from Microsys. If you email any questions, chances are that he will be the one answering.