Thank you Nick and everyone who has helped me with my questions. I'm now understand Tika much better vs. where I was at last week when I first looked at it.
Steve On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:18 AM, Nick Burch <apa...@gagravarr.org> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Steven White wrote: > >> I'm including tika-app-1.11.jar with my application and see that Tika >> includes "slf4j". >> > > The Tika App single jar is intended for standalone use. It's not generally > recommended to be included as part of a wider application, as it tends to > include everything and the kitchen sink, to allow for easy standalone use > > Generally, you should just tell Maven / Groovy / Ivy that you want to > depend on Tika Core + Tika Parsers, then your build tool will fetch + > bundle all the dependencies for you. That lets you have proper control over > conflicting versions of jars etc > > Nick >