Both SharePoint Portal Server and the Indexing Service allow for external content sources to be added to the workspace and crawled. Properties are extracted from documents by filters implemented for specific document types. All such filters are COM objects and must implement the IFilter interface. Therefore we call them IFilter implementations.

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