Chapter 7. Extracting text with Tika
This chapter covers
- Understanding Tika’s logical design
- Using Tika’s built-in tool and APIs for text extraction
- Parsing XML
- Handling known Tika limitations
One of the more mundane yet vital steps when building a search application is extracting text from the documents you need to index. You might be lucky to have an application whose content is already in textual format or whose documents are always the same format, such as XML files or regular rows in a database. If you’re unlucky, you must instead accept the surprisingly wide plethora of document formats that are popular today, such as Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Flash, PDF, Open Office, Rich Text Format (RTF), and even archive file formats ...
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