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Apache Tika 1.12


 The most notable changes in Tika 1.12 over the previous release are:

  * Support for iFrames and element link extraction is provided inthe link Content Handler ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1835}TIKA-1835}}).

  * Slide notes are now linked to the slide XHTML in the PPT output({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1840}TIKA-1840}}).

  * JSON tests in Tika server were updated to remove impossible casts({{{http://github.com/apache/tika/pull/73}Github-73}}).

  * Fix bug in GeoTopicParser where NER is reused instead of instantiatedwith each request ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1834}TIKA-1834}}).

  * 5.1 && Downgrade Rome dependency to 0.9 to avoidnasty NPE ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1820}TIKA-1820}}, {{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1516}TIKA-1516}})

  * The NamedEntityParser was enhanced to generate text contentin addition to metadata ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1815}TIKA-1815}}, {{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1816}TIKA-1816}}).

  * A significant speed-up is made to the GeoTopicParser byusing the new REST server capabilities from Lucene GeoGazetteer ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1803}TIKA-1803}}).

  * A parser to compute motion properties in Videos, e.g.,Histogram of Oriented Gradients and Histogram of Optical Flowsusing the Pooled Time Series algorithm, was added ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1798}TIKA-1798}}).

  * Provide NamedEntityParser which exposes Named Entity Recognitionfrom OpenNLP and Stanford NER providers ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1787}TIKA-1787}}, {{{http://github.com/apache/tika/pull/61}Github-61}},{{{http://github.com/apache/tika/pull/62}Github-62}}).

  * Allow XHTMLContentHandler to pass attributes of html elementvia Markus Jelsma ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1782}TIKA-1782}}).

  * Fix regression with spacing in PPT via Andreas Beeker ({{{http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1777}TIKA-1777}}).

  * Tika Facade parse methods for Path and File added which take aMetadata object, to mirror the existing InputStream one ({{{http://github.com/apache/tika/pull/60}Github-60}})

   The following people have contributed to Tika 1.12 by submitting or
   commenting on the issues resolved in this release:

          * Bob Paulin

          * Chris A. Mattmann

          * Ken Krugler

          * Lewis John McGibbney

          * Madhav Sharan

          * Markus Jelsma

          * Nick Burch

          * Roberto Benedetti

          * Thamme Gowda N

          * Tim Allison

          * Vjeran Marcinko

          * Yueheng He

   See {{https://s.apache.org/wDlx}} for more details on these contributions.