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Getting Started with Apache Tika This document describes how to build Apache Tika from sources and how to start using Tika in an application. Getting and building the sources To build Tika from sources you first need to either {{{../download.html}download}} a source release or {{{../contribute.html#Source_Code}checkout}} the latest sources from version control. Once you have the sources, you can build them using the {{{http://maven.apache.org/}Maven 2}} build system. Executing the following command in the base directory will build the sources and install the resulting artifacts in your local Maven repository. --- mvn install --- See the Maven documentation for more information about the available build options. Note that you need Java 5 or higher to build Tika. Build artifacts The Tika 0.10 build consists of a number of components and produces the following main binaries: [tika-core/target/tika-core-0.10.jar] Tika core library. Contains the core interfaces and classes of Tika, but none of the parser implementations. Depends only on Java 5. [tika-parsers/target/tika-parsers-0.10.jar] Tika parsers. Collection of classes that implement the Tika Parser interface based on various external parser libraries. [tika-app/target/tika-app-0.10.jar] Tika application. Combines the above libraries and all the external parser libraries into a single runnable jar with a GUI and a command line interface. [tika-bundle/target/tika-bundle-0.10.jar] Tika bundle. An OSGi bundle that includes everything you need to use all Tika functionality in an OSGi environment. Using Tika as a Maven dependency The core library, tika-core, contains the key interfaces and classes of Tika and can be used by itself if you don't need the full set of parsers from the tika-parsers component. The tika-core dependency looks like this: --- org.apache.tika tika-core 0.10 --- If you want to use Tika to parse documents (instead of simply detecting document types, etc.), you'll want to depend on tika-parsers instead: --- org.apache.tika tika-parsers 0.10 --- Note that adding this dependency will introduce a number of transitive dependencies to your project, including one on tika-core. You need to make sure that these dependencies won't conflict with your existing project dependencies. The listing below shows all the compile-scope dependencies of tika-parsers in the Tika 0.10 release. --- org.apache.tika:tika-parsers:bundle:0.10 +- org.apache.tika:tika-core:jar:0.10:compile +- edu.ucar:netcdf:jar:4.2-min:compile | \- org.slf4j:slf4j-api:jar:1.5.6:compile +- org.apache.james:apache-mime4j-core:jar:0.7:compile +- org.apache.james:apache-mime4j-dom:jar:0.7:compile +- org.apache.commons:commons-compress:jar:1.1:compile +- commons-codec:commons-codec:jar:1.4:compile +- org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox:jar:1.6.0:compile | +- org.apache.pdfbox:fontbox:jar:1.6.0:compile | +- org.apache.pdfbox:jempbox:jar:1.6.0:compile | \- commons-logging:commons-logging:jar:1.1.1:compile +- org.bouncycastle:bcmail-jdk15:jar:1.45:compile +- org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15:jar:1.45:compile +- org.apache.poi:poi:jar:3.8-beta4:compile +- org.apache.poi:poi-scratchpad:jar:3.8-beta4:compile +- org.apache.poi:poi-ooxml:jar:3.8-beta4:compile | +- org.apache.poi:poi-ooxml-schemas:jar:3.8-beta4:compile | | \- org.apache.xmlbeans:xmlbeans:jar:2.3.0:compile | \- dom4j:dom4j:jar:1.6.1:compile +- org.apache.geronimo.specs:geronimo-stax-api_1.0_spec:jar:1.0.1:compile +- org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup:tagsoup:jar:1.2.1:compile +- asm:asm:jar:3.1:compile +- com.drewnoakes:metadata-extractor:jar:2.4.0-beta-1:compile +- de.l3s.boilerpipe:boilerpipe:jar:1.1.0:compile +- rome:rome:jar:0.9:compile | \- jdom:jdom:jar:1.0:compile --- Using Tika in an Ant project Unless you use a dependency manager tool like {{{http://ant.apache.org/ivy/}Apache Ivy}}, to use Tika in you application you can include the Tika jar files and the dependencies individually. --- ... --- An easy way to gather all these libraries is to run "mvn dependency:copy-dependencies" in the tika-parsers source directory. This will copy all Tika dependencies to the <<>> directory. Alternatively you can simply drop the entire tika-app jar to your classpath to get all of the above dependencies in a single archive. Using Tika as a command line utility The Tika application jar (tika-app-0.10.jar) can be used as a command line utility for extracting text content and metadata from all sorts of files. This runnable jar contains all the dependencies it needs, so you don't need to worry about classpath settings to run it. The usage instructions are shown below. --- usage: java -jar tika-app-0.10.jar [option] [file] Options: -? or --help Print this usage message -v or --verbose Print debug level messages -g or --gui Start the Apache Tika GUI -s or --server Start the Apache Tika server -x or --xml Output XHTML content (default) -h or --html Output HTML content -j or --json Output JSON content -t or --text Output plain text content -T or --text-main Output plain text content (main content only) -m or --metadata Output only metadata -l or --language Output only language -d or --detect Detect document type -eX or --encoding=X Use output encoding X -z or --extract Extract all attachements into current directory -r or --pretty-print For XML and XHTML outputs, adds newlines and whitespace, for better readability --create-profile=X Create NGram profile, where X is a profile name --list-parsers List the available document parsers --list-parser-details List the available document parsers, and their supported mime types --list-met-models List the available metadata models, and their supported keys --list-supported-types List all known media types and related information Description: Apache Tika will parse the file(s) specified on the command line and output the extracted text content or metadata to standard output. Instead of a file name you can also specify the URL of a document to be parsed. If no file name or URL is specified (or the special name "-" is used), then the standard input stream is parsed. If no arguments were given and no input data is available, the GUI is started instead. - GUI mode Use the "--gui" (or "-g") option to start the Apache Tika GUI. You can drag and drop files from a normal file explorer to the GUI window to extract text content and metadata from the files. - Server mode Use the "-server" (or "-s") option to start the Apache Tika server. The server will listen to the ports you specify as one or more arguments. --- You can also use the jar as a component in a Unix pipeline or as an external tool in many scripting languages. --- # Check if an Internet resource contains a specific keyword curl http://.../document.doc \ | java -jar tika-app-0.10.jar --text \ | grep -q keyword ---