Hi all, This may be off-topic for this list, but I need to start somewhere.
I need a command line utility to do document format conversion, in a batch mode environment. The batch process is a combination of steps, one of which is the actual format conversion which is currently being done by a collection of Linux binary converters like wvWare, pdftohtml, etc. I've put a shell script wrapper around the tika jar: java -jar tika-app.jar [infile] > [outfile] This works OK, but as you would imagine, it is much slower compared to a Linux binary. Does anyone know of a way to improve the performance in a setup like this? I know it goes against the whole philosophy of Java, but is there a way to compile the Tika jar byte code into a native Linux binary? I've taken a look at gcj, but it doesn't look like a simple re-compile. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Doug
