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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Chief Architect Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >
