Tika in Action

Appendix A. Tika quick reference

All the key interfaces in Tika were described in detail earlier in this book and their Javadocs are all available online, but it’s often useful to have a quick reference for looking up some of the more commonly used functionality. This appendix answers that need by providing a summary of the key parts of the Tika API.

A.1. Tika facade

As discussed in chapter 2 and later in this book, the org.apache.tika.Tika facade class is designed to make simple Tika use cases as easy to use as possible. The facade class supports the methods shown in table A.1.

Table A.1. Key methods of the Tika facade class

Method	Description
detect(...)	Returns the automatically detected media type of the given document. The return ...