diff --git a/lib/Alchemy/Phrasea/SearchEngine/Elastic/ElasticSearchEngine.php b/lib/Alchemy/Phrasea/SearchEngine/Elastic/ElasticSearchEngine.php
index 4807f28b81..a6ec2a1bf6 100644
--- a/lib/Alchemy/Phrasea/SearchEngine/Elastic/ElasticSearchEngine.php
+++ b/lib/Alchemy/Phrasea/SearchEngine/Elastic/ElasticSearchEngine.php
@@ -369,16 +369,6 @@ class ElasticSearchEngine implements SearchEngineInterface
         throw new RuntimeException('Elasticsearch engine currently does not support auto-complete.');
     }
 
-    /**
-     * {@inheritdoc}
-     */
-    public function excerpt($query, $fields, \record_adapter $record, SearchEngineOptions $options = null)
-    {
-        //@todo implements
-
-        return array();
-    }
-
     /**
      * {@inheritdoc}
      */
diff --git a/lib/Alchemy/Phrasea/SearchEngine/SearchEngineInterface.php b/lib/Alchemy/Phrasea/SearchEngine/SearchEngineInterface.php
index 4a388ba2ae..e9bc7a01b0 100644
--- a/lib/Alchemy/Phrasea/SearchEngine/SearchEngineInterface.php
+++ b/lib/Alchemy/Phrasea/SearchEngine/SearchEngineInterface.php
@@ -182,17 +182,6 @@ interface SearchEngineInterface
      */
     public function autocomplete($query, SearchEngineOptions $options);
 
-    /**
-     * Highlight the fields of a record
-     *
-     * @param type            $query
-     * @param type            $fields
-     * @param \record_adapter $record
-     *
-     * @return array The array of highlighted fields
-     */
-    public function excerpt($query, $fields, \record_adapter $record, SearchEngineOptions $options = null);
-
     /**
      * Reset the cache of the SE (if applicable)
      *
diff --git a/lib/classes/caption/record.php b/lib/classes/caption/record.php
index fda7def24c..0065f1e4f0 100644
--- a/lib/classes/caption/record.php
+++ b/lib/classes/caption/record.php
@@ -246,24 +246,6 @@ SQL;
             ];
         }
 
-        if ($searchEngine instanceof SearchEngineInterface) {
-            $ret = $searchEngine->excerpt($highlight, $fields, $this->record, $options);
-
-            // sets highlighted value from search engine, highlighted values will now
-            // be surrounded by [[em]][[/em]] tags
-            if ($ret) {
-                foreach ($fields as $key => $value) {
-                    if (!isset($ret[$key])) {
-                        continue;
-                    }
-
-                    foreach ($ret[$key] as $metaId => $newValue) {
-                        $fields[$key]['values'][$metaId]['value'] = $newValue;
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-        }
-
         return $fields;
     }
 
diff --git a/tests/Alchemy/Tests/Phrasea/SearchEngine/SearchEngineAbstractTest.php b/tests/Alchemy/Tests/Phrasea/SearchEngine/SearchEngineAbstractTest.php
index 8ff780c00c..4944c714ef 100644
--- a/tests/Alchemy/Tests/Phrasea/SearchEngine/SearchEngineAbstractTest.php
+++ b/tests/Alchemy/Tests/Phrasea/SearchEngine/SearchEngineAbstractTest.php
@@ -711,54 +711,6 @@ abstract class SearchEngineAbstractTest extends \PhraseanetAuthenticatedTestCase
         $this->assertEquals(1, $results->getTotal());
     }
 
-    public function testExcerptFromSimpleQuery()
-    {
-        $record = self::$DI['record_2'];
-        $query_string = 'boomboklot' . $record->get_record_id() . 'excerptSimpleQuery';
-
-        $this->editRecord($query_string, $record);
-
-        self::$searchEngine->addRecord($record);
-        $this->updateIndex();
-
-        self::$searchEngine->resetCache();
-        $results = self::$searchEngine->query($query_string, 0, 1, $this->options);
-        $fields = [];
-        $foundRecord = $results->getResults()->first();
-
-        $this->assertInstanceOf('\record_adapter', $foundRecord);
-
-        foreach ($foundRecord->get_caption()->get_fields() as $field) {
-            foreach ($field->get_values() as $metaId => $v) {
-                $values[$metaId] = [
-                    'value' => $v->getValue(),
-                    'from_thesaurus' => false,
-                    'qjs' => null,
-                ];
-            }
-
-            $fields[$field->get_name()] = [
-                'values' => $values,
-                'separator' => ';',
-            ];
-        }
-
-        $found = false;
-        $highlightedValues = self::$searchEngine->excerpt($query_string, $fields, $foundRecord);
-        foreach ($highlightedValues as $fieldValues) {
-            foreach ($fieldValues as $metaId => $field) {
-                if (strpos($field, '[[em]]') !== false && strpos($field, '[[/em]]') !== false) {
-                    $found = true;
-                    break 2;
-                }
-            }
-        }
-
-        if (!$found && count($highlightedValues) > 0) {
-            $this->fail('Unable to build the excerpt');
-        }
-    }
-
     abstract public function initialize();
 
     abstract public function testAutocomplete();
diff --git a/tests/classes/PhraseanetAuthenticatedWebTestCase.php b/tests/classes/PhraseanetAuthenticatedWebTestCase.php
index 2b1e0724f3..09a456bb7a 100644
--- a/tests/classes/PhraseanetAuthenticatedWebTestCase.php
+++ b/tests/classes/PhraseanetAuthenticatedWebTestCase.php
@@ -223,8 +223,6 @@ abstract class PhraseanetAuthenticatedWebTestCase extends \PhraseanetAuthenticat
         $searchEngine = $this->prophesize(SearchEngineInterface::class);
         $searchEngine->query('', 0, Argument::any(), Argument::any())
             ->willReturn($result);
-        $searchEngine->excerpt(Argument::any(), Argument::any(), Argument::any(), Argument::any())
-            ->willReturn([]);
 
         $app['search_engine'] = $searchEngine->reveal();
         return $app;