Thanks very much for responding to me, Chris. I hope you don't mind if I ask a
few more questions about the setup process which I have done to date as follows
(and by way of background I have a Windows 7 64 bit pc):
1) I downloaded the tika-app-1.5.jar from
http://tika.apache.org/download.html2) I was recommended by a friend to rename
it to tika-app.jar, which I have done, and placed it in my c:\Users\Myusername
directory3) I added the environment variable JAVA_HOME (as a system
variable).4) I then brought up the cmd window, changed directory to
c:\Users\Myusername and typed in "java -jar tika-app.jar"
However the gui does not appear.
I have the latest version of Java: Version 7 Update 60 but I was wondering if I
needed the Java SDK to run this?
Many thanks again for your help
Richard
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Question re installing Tika
> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 03:27:20 +0000
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> Hope you are well, will try and answer below:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Richard <[email protected]>
> Date: Friday, June 6, 2014 6:07 AM
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
> "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Question re installing Tika
>
> >Hello
> >
> >I am new to the Apache suite of products and dealing with text in pdfs,
> >more generally. In particular I am trying to install Tika (the
> >tika-app_1.5.jar) as well as Solr on my Windows 7 pc.
> >
> >
> >However I am confused about how to do the Tika installation.
> >
> >
> >From reading various webpages (eg
> >http://tika.apache.org/1.5/gettingstarted.html
> ><http://tika.apache.org/1.5/gettingstarted.html>) it seems I need to
> >
> >1)
> >Download the .jar from
> >http://tika.apache.org/download.html
> ><http://tika.apache.org/download.html> (do I need to put it in a specific
> >windows folder?)
>
> Nope you don't have to put in any specific folder, wherever you are
> comfortable calling the jar from.
>
> >2)
> >Download Maven 2 (from http://maven.apache.org/ ) and follow up the
> >instructions for Windows on
> >http://maven.apache.org/download.cgi#Installation
>
> No need to do this unless you are building from scratch.
>
> >3)
> >Also where do I set the base directory?
>
> You just need to install Apache Tika and its *-app.jar file into some
> folder, and then
> call it by doing java -jar /path/to/tika-*version*-app.jar --help
>
> >
> >4)
> >Where do I run the command ³mvn install² from? Is it the command line?
>
> If you are building from source, then you would run this at the top level
> directory containing
> files like pom.xml, tika-parent, tika-parsers, etc.
>
> >
> >
> >Any help would be most gratefully received.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Chris
>
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