Tika 0.4 / 0.5

It should work - please try it and we can update the README.

Hmm, perhaps tika 0.4 added a new master application jar. Silly that Solr is not shipping it - but likely it's not needed for content extraction.

Well, the long-run plan was to use tika via Solr (or at least have that as an option), but it would be nice to continue to have a local tika extraction option.

http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ExtractingRequestHandler

I had the same experience with tika 0.4 - needed to build from source to get the app jar. PITA.

Here's an update to the README

committed that path + one more line

I've followed these instructions but unfortunately I'm still having a bit of related Tika trouble.

I've built Tika with Maven and it works fine from the command line (Mac OSX). However, when running the cron, the attachments module runs the shell_exec command to extract the text and gets no response. This error turns up in the apache error log
:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.InternalError: Can't connect to window server - not enough permissions.
        at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1822)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1723)
        at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:822)
        at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:993)
        at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibraryAction.java:50)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.awt.Toolkit.loadLibraries(Toolkit.java:1509)
        at java.awt.Toolkit.<clinit>(Toolkit.java:1530)
        at java.awt.Color.<clinit>(Color.java:250)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.graphics.color.PDColorState.<clinit>(PDColorState.java:48)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.graphics.PDGraphicsState.<init>(PDGraphicsState.java:40)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:182)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.processPage(PDFTextStripper.java:367)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.processPages(PDFTextStripper.java:291)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.writeText(PDFTextStripper.java:247)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.getText(PDFTextStripper.java:180)
        at org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDF2XHTML.process(PDF2XHTML.java:56)
        at org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParser.parse(PDFParser.java:69)
        at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:120)
        at org.apache.tika.parser.AutoDetectParser.parse(AutoDetectParser.java:101)
        at org.apache.tika.cli.TikaCLI.process(TikaCLI.java:175)
        at org.apache.tika.cli.TikaCLI.main(TikaCLI.java:62)

The problem appears to be that there aren't sufficient permissions to spawn the GUI. I notice that even when running via the command line, the GUI is still appearing very briefly.

Is there a way to suppress this GUI thing? Also, is this likely to only be a problem on my Mac environment? Would a linux server deal with this differently? Presumably anyone who has got this working must have worked around this.

Any hints will be most appreciated! :-)

Perhaps you are using the wrong jar?

I've used tike 0.4 with no problem on Mac OS 10.5

I was using tika-app-0.5.jar. I've just downloaded and installed 0.4 and it works fine.

Also, when I run the 0.4 command line i don't see any programs pop up on my dock so I my hunch is that 0.5 is running some kind of GUI thing by mistake which shell_exec doesn't have permission to do.

Thanks for the module btw. Works like a charm now!

hmm, 0.5 works ok for me to index some files with this module - built from a checkout of http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/tika/tags/0.5

so, not sure what the issue is for you, but marking fixed in the absence of more info.

@timatlee;

You walkthrough worked for me, thanks.

But, I need to download the source using

svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tika/tags/0.5

On ubuntu:

svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tika/tags/0.5 tika
sudo apt-get install maven2
cd tika
sudo mvn install

The last command failed at first (and second run), but the third time it finished and it seems to work.

In drupal I added the tika root dir (the checkout dir) as the Tika directory path and tika-app/target/tika-app-0.5.jar as the tika jar file.

Searching in drupal gives me content from within pdf files now.

Thanks Yaron,

Just a note that I managed to get tika version 0.9 working using these instructions in Drupal 7. I had some PDFs which earlier versions of Tika were not extracting contents from.

Download the 0.9 src code from the Apache tika website: http://tika.apache.org/download.html

On ubuntu you can then:

unzip apache-tika-0.9-src.zip
cd apache-tika-0.9-src
sudo apt-get install maven2
sudo mvn install
sudo mkdir /usr/local/share/tika
sudo cp tika-app/target/tika-app-0.9.jar /usr/local/share/tika

In the attachments setting screen I set the directory path as /usr/local/share/tika and the Tika jar file as tika-app-0.9.jar

After manually running cron and waiting 5 minutes, the pdf contents appeared in the search results

Hi John

I followed exactly what you did but no luck .Please do the needful

cd /var
unzip apache-tika-0.9-src.zip
cd apache-tika-0.9
sudo apt-get install maven2
sudo mvn install
sudo mkdir /usr/local/share/tika
sudo cp tika-app/target/tika-app-0.9.jar /usr/local/share/tika

root@xxxxx:/var# cp tika-app/target/tika-app-0.9.jar /usr/local/share/tika
cp: cannot stat `tika-app/target/tika-app-0.9.jar': No such file or directory

Thanks
Revathi

Closing because it's an old issue with no response. Also, most of the people have gotten it to work so it should work

I had to add these 2 lines to settings.php to get it to work:

$conf['apachesolr_attachments_tika_path'] = '/var/www/sites/all/modules/thirdparty/apachesolr_attachments/tika/';
$conf['apachesolr_attachments_tika_jar'] = 'tika-app-1.4.jar';

I don't see how these variables were meant to be set and nothing in the instructions about it?!?

I don't know about early versions of this module but as of version 7.x-1.4 the $conf settings can be found at /admin/config/search/apachesolr/attachments