Elasticsearch: Add a document with an attachment

This documentation is part of the Ingest attachment plugin guide. View the full guide here: How to extract data from PPT, XLS, and PDF files to Elasticsearch.

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Now you can index a document that contains an attachment. The document should include a data field that holds the file content encoded in Base64. In this example, the document is an RTF file containing the sentence "This is the content of an RTF file":

PUT my_index/_doc/my_id?pipeline=attachment
{
  "data": "e1xydGYxXGFuc2kKVGhpcyBpcyB0aGUgY29udGVudCBvZiBhIFJURiBmaWxlClxwYXIgfQ=="
}