Hi, On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Mark Kerzner <[email protected]> wrote: >> Do you mean that every call to Tika is a JVM startup? But it looks like a >> straight Java call to me, if your application is already running inside of a >> JVM? > In that case there's no significant startup cost, at least once you've > already loaded the Tika classes to memory. The server mode is > typically more interesting for non-Java clients that face the question > of either executing tika-app separately for each document or accessing > an already running server process. > > BR, > > Jukka Zitting
This is my situation. I would like to treat the document text and metadata (and language) extraction as a web service. tika will run on its own, in its own environment, and other non-java applications will send it requests and get back results. -- Jason
