I'm still having issues with this, I was also having trouble parsing iWork 
files and Nick was helping me with that. In any case, he had me test the file I 
was parsing using the tika 1.0 client. I noticed that there's a fork option 
that uses the forkparser if you pass the "-f" argument when running the tika 
client.  I tried this, but got the following error.  Can someone test this with 
Tika 1.0?

here's the command I used (I changed the path of the file, but assume the path 
is correct):
java -jar tika-app-1.0.jar -f /path/to/some/testPDF.pdf

This is the exception I received with a stack trace:
Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Broken pipe
        at java.io.FileOutputStream.writeBytes(Native Method)
        at java.io.FileOutputStream.write(FileOutputStream.java:260)
        at 
java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flushBuffer(BufferedOutputStream.java:65)
        at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flush(BufferedOutputStream.java:123)
        at java.io.DataOutputStream.flush(DataOutputStream.java:106)
        at org.apache.tika.fork.ForkClient.waitForResponse(ForkClient.java:163)
        at org.apache.tika.fork.ForkClient.sendObject(ForkClient.java:137)
        at org.apache.tika.fork.ForkClient.<init>(ForkClient.java:71)
        at org.apache.tika.fork.ForkParser.acquireClient(ForkParser.java:159)
        at org.apache.tika.fork.ForkParser.parse(ForkParser.java:118)
        at org.apache.tika.cli.TikaCLI$OutputType.process(TikaCLI.java:128)
        at org.apache.tika.cli.TikaCLI.process(TikaCLI.java:392)
        at org.apache.tika.cli.TikaCLI.main(TikaCLI.java:99)

any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
-Arthur Meneau

On Dec 5, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Arthur Meneau wrote:

> Yikes, forgot to mention, this is using Tika 1.0 with all the appropriate 
> dependencies.  I'm using pdfbox version 1.6.0.  This is running on Java 6 on 
> Mac OS X version 10.6.
> 
> Any help getting pdfs to parse would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> Thanks,
> -Arthur Meneau
> 
> On Dec 5, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Arthur Meneau wrote:
> 
>> I'm having some issues when I attempt to parse pdf and docx files while 
>> using ForkParser.  I finally figured out how to get the metadata from the 
>> content handler using ToXMLContentHandler, but I am not getting any results 
>> when I parse pdfs or DocX files using ForkParser.  I have copy and pasted 
>> the error and stack trace below, but I believe this only applies to PDF 
>> files as I am not getting a unique error for DocX files.
>> 
>> I did a little searching, using java's jar utility to verify that the class 
>> shows up in the Jar and it does.  I was previously using the 
>> AutoDetectParser and that was working just fine with the exception that I 
>> could not limit tika's memory usage, so this seems to be unique to 
>> ForkParser.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> -Arthur
>> 
>> StackTrace: 
>> log4j:WARN Caught Exception while in Loader.getResource. This may be 
>> innocuous.
>> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
>> org/apache/tika/fork/MemoryURLStreamHandler$Record
>>      at 
>> org.apache.tika.fork.MemoryURLStreamHandler.createURL(MemoryURLStreamHandler.java:46)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.tika.fork.ClassLoaderProxy.findResource(ClassLoaderProxy.java:73)
>>      at java.lang.ClassLoader.getResource(ClassLoader.java:977)
>>      at org.apache.log4j.helpers.Loader.getResource(Loader.java:96)
>>      at org.apache.log4j.LogManager.<clinit>(LogManager.java:105)
>>      at org.apache.log4j.Logger.getLogger(Logger.java:104)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger.getLogger(Log4JLogger.java:289)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger.<init>(Log4JLogger.java:109)
>>      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
>>      at 
>> sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
>>      at 
>> sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
>>      at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.createLogFromClass(LogFactoryImpl.java:1116)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.discoverLogImplementation(LogFactoryImpl.java:914)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.newInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:604)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:336)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.commons.logging.impl.LogFactoryImpl.getInstance(LogFactoryImpl.java:310)
>>      at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getLog(LogFactory.java:685)
>>      at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser.<clinit>(BaseParser.java:58)
>>      at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:1087)
>>      at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:1053)
>>      at org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParser.parse(PDFParser.java:80)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:242)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:242)
>>      at 
>> org.apache.tika.parser.AutoDetectParser.parse(AutoDetectParser.java:120)
>>      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
>>      at 
>> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
>>      at 
>> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
>>      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
>>      at org.apache.tika.fork.ForkServer.call(ForkServer.java:136)
>>      at org.apache.tika.fork.ForkServer.processRequests(ForkServer.java:116)
>>      at org.apache.tika.fork.ForkServer.main(ForkServer.java:64)
> 

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