Showing posts with label apache tika. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apache tika. Show all posts

Sunday, April 19, 2015

How to extract data from PDF files using Apache Tika? (31 of 285 technotes for 2015)



The Apache Tika™ toolkit detects and extracts metadata and text from over a thousand different file types (such as PPT, XLS, and PDF). All of these file types can be parsed through a single interface, making Tika useful for search engine indexing, content analysis, translation, and much more.


The code below shows a simple example as to how to use Apache Tika.