Hi Richard, No problem at all, my attempted answers below:
-----Original Message----- From: Richard <[email protected]> Date: Monday, June 16, 2014 3:47 PM To: Chris Mattmann <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Question re installing Tika >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 ><http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/tika/tika-app-1.5.jar> from >http://tika.apache.org/download.html >2) 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 directory >3) 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. Yep, if you type java -jar tika-app.jar --help, you'll see the command line output and the switches. I believe to pull the GUI up you need to do: java -jar tika-app.jar --gui > > > >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 No problem, see above :) Cheers, Chris > > >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 >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> 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 >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >> >> >> >> > >> > > > >
