Hi, I tried requesting a Jira account (birdya22) to report this issue but the request was denied.
The reply said I could submit PRs on github (I have an account), but I didn't see how to do it (https://github.com/apache/tika/). So I've subscribed to this list and here are the details. I tried to get Tika and ExifTool to work together to process some JPEG image files and came across a number of issues. 1) Tika and ExifTool don't work on Windows I used the Wiki page 'https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TIKA/EXIFToolParser' to understand how to do the integration. Because I wasn't getting the metadata I expected, I used the '--verbose' option and got a Java Exception which contained this text: "WARN [main] 07:13:34,699 org.apache.tika.parser.external.ExternalParser problem with process exec java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "env": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified" The exception occurs because 'env' is not a valid Windows command. I tracked this down to the file 'org\apache\tika\parser\external\tika-external-parsers.xml' in the Tika App jar where the command is: '<command>env FOO=${OUTPUT} exiftool ${INPUT}</command>' This doesn't work on Windows because 'env' does not exist as a command. 2) In the same file I noticed an entry for 'sox'. For the same reason as ExifTool, Tika and sox won't work on Windows The command is: <command>env FOO=${OUTPUT} sox --info ${INPUT}</command> Note I didn't find any information on 'sox' on the Wiki. 3) Looking at the file 'org\apache\tika\parser\external\tika-external-parsers.xml' I noticed that it only contains video related mime-types, meaning that I cannot use it with image files. The Wiki page says: 'EXIFTool is a wonderful tool that reads videos, images, audio and other media files and that extracts EXIF metadata from them.' I took this to mean that Tika can extract metadata from all 3 file types, but that isn't the case as it only supports video files. Given this can I suggest the Wiki page should be updated to make this clear. Adrian
