Tika in Action

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Chapter 1. The case for the digital Babel fish

Figure 1.1. Computer programs usually specialize in reading and interpreting only one file format (or family of formats). To deal with .pdf files, .psd files, and the like, you’d purchase Adobe products. If you needed to deal with Microsoft Office files (.doc, .xls, and so on), you’d turn to Microsoft products or other office programs that support these Microsoft formats. Few programs can understand all of these formats.

Figure 1.2. Seven top-level MIME types hierarchy as defined by IANA’s RFC 2046 (the eighth type model was added later in RFC 2077). Top-level types can have subtypes (children), and so on, as new media types are defined over the years. The use of the multiplicity ...