# Searching uploaded documents

**URL:** <https://discourse.equality-tech.com/t/searching-uploaded-documents/460>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [August 21, 2018, 3:28pm UTC](https://discourse.equality-tech.com/t/searching-uploaded-documents/460 "2018-08-21T15:28:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![eqt](https://discourse.equality-tech.com/user_avatar/discourse.equality-tech.com/eqt/32/16_2.png) [@eqt](https://discourse.equality-tech.com/u/eqt)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 3:28pm UTC](https://discourse.equality-tech.com/t/searching-uploaded-documents/460/1 "2018-08-21T15:28:38Z")

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My wiki has a lot of documents that we need to upload and reference. Does QualityBox search these documents? How does it work?

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**Author:** ![eqt](https://discourse.equality-tech.com/user_avatar/discourse.equality-tech.com/eqt/32/16_2.png) [@eqt](https://discourse.equality-tech.com/u/eqt)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2018, 2:20pm UTC](https://discourse.equality-tech.com/t/searching-uploaded-documents/460/2 "2018-10-12T14:20:23Z")

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QualityBox uses **Elasticsearch** to index uploaded content. Content should be indexed and found in Search Results almost immediately. One way to check if a file has been indexed is to visit the **File** URL, and add `action=cirrusDump` to the URL of the PDF file.

Search indexing does depend on the ‘job queue’, so if you’re not seeing the results you expect, we can check your settings, MediaWiki job queue and various Elasticsearch system parameters.

The content is stored in the `image.img_metadata` field as serialized JSON.

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**Author:** ![eqt](https://discourse.equality-tech.com/user_avatar/discourse.equality-tech.com/eqt/32/16_2.png) [@eqt](https://discourse.equality-tech.com/u/eqt)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2018, 2:20pm UTC](https://discourse.equality-tech.com/t/searching-uploaded-documents/460/3 "2018-10-19T14:20:27Z")

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