Changeset 34291 for gs2-extensions/gstika/trunk/GS_TIKA_README.txt

Timestamp:

2020-07-24T18:07:13+12:00 (4 years ago)

Author:

ak19

Message:

More information about Tika, including to answer Dr Bainbridge's question on whether html output of the tika-cli really doesn't include the images. Tika docs say output formats are all for extracting text in those formats.

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• gs2-extensions/gstika/trunk/GS_TIKA_README.txt (modified) (2 diffs)

gs2-extensions/gstika/trunk/GS_TIKA_README.txt

@@ -34 +34 @@
 https://tika.apache.org/1.8/examples.html
 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38577468/convert-a-word-documents-to-html-with-embedded-images-by-tika
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+* HTML output is without images:
+  - https://tika.apache.org/1.8/examples.html#Picking_different_output_formats
+    Picking different output formats
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+    With Tika, you can get the textual content of your files returned in a number of different formats. These can be plain text, html, xhtml, xhtml of one part of the file etc. This is controlled based on the ContentHandler you supply to the Parser.
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+  - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38577468/convert-a-word-documents-to-html-with-embedded-images-by-tika
+    also seems to indicate that images are not part of the html output
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+  - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27623809/how-to-extract-title-body-and-images-from-html-with-apache-tika-parser
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+* More reading:
+- https://medium.com/@simonli_18826/apache-tika-code-with-example-walkthroughs-d1b0c18d5b2d
+- https://www.manning.com/books/tika-in-action
+- https://livebook.manning.com/book/tika-in-action/chapter-2/48 (one of the free chapters)
 
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@@ -101 +118 @@
 D. THE --encoding= FLAG TO TIKA
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+https://livebook.manning.com/book/tika-in-action/chapter-2/48
+Contains this insightful segment about the encoding flag:
+    "Note that Tika will by default output text using the normal character encoding used on your computer. This is great if you’re using Tika with tools such as your command-line console window that expect this default character encoding, but may cause trouble otherwise. To avoid unexpected encoding problems, you can explicitly set the output encoding with the --encoding option..."
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 > java -jar tika-app-*.jar --help
   ...