Requirements

• Sun Java VM (JRE 1.6)
• eZ Publish 4.x

Supported binary file formats

[application/pdf]
[application/msword]
[application/vnd.ms-excel]
[application/vnd.ms-powerpoint]
[application/vnd.visio]
[application/vnd.ms-outlook]
[application/xml]
[application/rtf]
[application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text]
[application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation]
[application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet]
[application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.formula]
[application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document]
[application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet]
[application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation]
[application/octet-stream] (anything tika recognizes which is a lot!!)
[application/zip]

Installation

See the included INSTALL.txt, make sure you adapt the various paths according to your environment if you need to and check the permissions/ownership of the executables for your server configuration.

Known issues

• none so far

Changelog

Changelog eztika 1.4 to 1.5

• updated tika.jar to 1.0-snapshot (svn rev 1169702)
• "zero-configuration" option: no need to adapt edit paths in the executable scripts, they will be executed relative from your eZ Publish root installation (Felix Woldt)
• additional debug settings for success/failure of text extraction and optionally keeping the extracted text temp files (Felix Woldt)

Changelog eztika 1.3 to 1.4

• updated tika.jar to version 1.0-snapshot (svn rev 1156078)
• includes support for iWork, chm

Changelog eztika 1.2 to 1.3

• updated tika.jar to 0.8-snapshot (rev 933934); now supporting correctly CJK pdfs
• updated meta-info

Changelog eztika 1.1 to 1.2

• updated tika.jar to 0.6-dev (rev 897576) which has better support for ms excel, a reduced footprint and output encoding options
•  it now correctly converts OOo and MSxx formats with asian content properly to UTF-8
• added encoding option --encoding=utf8 to eztika wrapper script
• updated ezinfo.php
• changed structure for building with http://projects.ez.no/ezextensionbuilder

Changelog eztika 1.0 to 1.1

• (added 2010-01-17) let ezpdftotext specify the no pagebreaks option, which potentialy break the UTF payload sent to ez find
• updated tika.jar to 0.5-dev (rev 814142), including more support for office xml formats and various bugfixes
• added office xml format mimetypes to binaryfile.ini
• updated ezinfo.php