sorry for using wrong forum is there a tika forum ?
your suggested command is working of a fashion java -jar c:\jars\tika-app-1.12.jar -J -t -i f: -o g: the directory structure is being reproduced but the zip files are being copied as zip files (I think) the copied files retain the original filename (including the original zip extension) with an additional json extension though when I try to open the file using B1 file archiver, it reports a corrupt file.

