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1. Checkout the source from SVN as detailed on the Apache Tika contributions page or retrieve the latest code from Github,
2. Build source using Maven
3. Run the Apache Tika JAXRS server runnable jar.

git clone https://github.com/apache/tika.git tika-trunk
cd ./tika-trunk/
mvn install
cd ./tika-server/target/
java -jar tika-server-x.x.jar

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You will then see a message such as the following:

$ java -jar tika-server-1.24-SNAPSHOT.jar
19-Jan-2015 14:23:36 org.apache.tika.server.TikaServerCli main
INFO: Starting Apache Tika 1.8-SNAPSHOT server
19-Jan-2015 14:23:36 org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ServerImpl initDestination
INFO: Setting the server's publish address to be http://localhost:9998/
19-Jan-2015 14:23:36 org.slf4j.impl.JCLLoggerAdapter info
INFO: jetty-8.y.z-SNAPSHOT
19-Jan-2015 14:23:36 org.slf4j.impl.JCLLoggerAdapter info
INFO: Started SelectChannelConnector@localhost:9998
19-Jan-2015 14:23:36 org.apache.tika.server.TikaServerCli main
INFO: Started

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You can specify additional information to change the host name and port number:

java -jar tika-server-x.x.jar --host=intranet.local --port=12345

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Metadata Resource

/meta

HTTP PUTs a document to the /meta service and you get back "text/csv" of the metadata.

Some Example calls with cURL:

$ curl -X PUT --data-ascii @zipcode.csv http://localhost:9998/meta --header "Content-Type: text/csv"
$ curl -T price.xls http://localhost:9998/meta

Returns:

"Content-Encoding","ISO-8859-2"
"Content-Type","text/plain"

Get metadata as JSON:

$ curl -T test_recursive_embedded.docx http://localhost:9998/meta --header "Accept: application/json"

Or XMP:

$ curl -T test_recursive_embedded.docx http://localhost:9998/meta --header "Accept: application/rdf+xml"

Get specific metadata key's value as simple text string:

$ curl -T test_recursive_embedded.docx http://localhost:9998/meta/Content-Type --header "Accept: text/plain"

Returns:

application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document

Get specific metadata key's value(s) as CSV:

$ curl -T test_recursive_embedded.docx http://localhost:9998/meta/Content-Type --header "Accept: text/csv"

Or JSON:

$ curl -T test_recursive_embedded.docx http://localhost:9998/meta/Content-Type --header "Accept: application/json"

Or XMP:

$ curl -T test_recursive_embedded.docx http://localhost:9998/meta/Content-Type --header "Accept: application/rdf+xml"

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Metadata Resource also accepts the files as multipart/form-data attachments with POST. Posting files as multipart attachments may be beneficial in cases when the files are too big for them to be PUT directly in the request body. Note that Tika JAX-RS server makes the best effort at storing some of the multipart content to the disk while still supporting the streaming:

curl -F upload=@price.xls URL http://localhost:9998/meta/form

Note that the address has an extra "/form" path segment.

Tika Resource

/tika

HTTP PUTs a document to the /tika service and you get back the extracted text in text, html or "body" format (see below). See also the /rmeta  endpoint for text and metadata of embedded objects.  

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Get HELLO message back

$ curl -X GET http://localhost:9998/tika
This is Tika Server. Please PUT

Get the Text of a Document

$ curl -X PUT --data-binary @GeoSPARQL.pdf http://localhost:9998/tika --header "Content-type: application/pdf"
$ curl -T price.xls http://localhost:9998/tika --header "Accept: text/html"
$ curl -T price.xls http://localhost:9998/tika --header "Accept: text/plain"

Use the Boilerpipe handler (equivalent to tika-app's --text-main) with text output:

$ curl -T price.xls http://localhost:9998/tika/main --header "Accept: text/plain"

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Tika Resource also accepts the files as multipart/form-data attachments with POST. Posting files as multipart attachments may be beneficial in cases when the files are too big for them to be PUT directly in the request body. Note that Tika JAX-RS server makes the best effort at storing some of the multipart content to the disk while still supporting the streaming:

curl -F upload=@price.xls URL http://localhost:9998/tika/form

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Detector Resource

/detect/stream

HTTP PUTs a document and uses the Default Detector from Tika to identify its MIME/media type. The caveat here is that providing a hint for the filename can increase the quality of detection.

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PUT an RTF file and get back RTF

$ curl -X PUT --data-binary @TODO.rtf http://localhost:9998/detect/stream

PUT a CSV file without filename hint and get back text/plain

$ curl -X PUT --upload-file foo.csv http://localhost:9998/detect/stream

PUT a CSV file with filename hint and get back text/csv

$ curl -X PUT -H "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=foo.csv" --upload-file foo.csv http://localhost:9998/detect/stream

Language Resource

/language/stream

HTTP PUTs or POSTs a UTF-8 text file to the LanguageIdentifier to identify its language. 

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PUT a TXT file with English This is English! and get back en

$ curl -X PUT --data-binary @foo.txt http://localhost:9998/language/stream
en

PUT a TXT file with French comme çi comme ça and get back fr

curl -X PUT --data-binary @foo.txt http://localhost:9998/language/stream
fr

/language/string

HTTP PUTs or POSTs a text string to the LanguageIdentifier to identify its language.

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PUT a string with English This is English! and get back en

$ curl -X PUT --data "This is English!" http://localhost:9998/language/string
en

PUT a string with French comme çi comme ça and get back fr

curl -X PUT --data "comme çi comme ça" http://localhost:9998/language/string
fr

Translate Resource

/translate/all/translator/src/dest

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PUT a TXT file named sentences with Spanish me falta práctica en Español and get back the English translation using Lingo24

$ curl -X PUT --data-binary @sentences http://localhost:9998/translate/all/org.apache.tika.language.translate.Lingo24Translator/es/en
lack of practice in Spanish

PUT a TXT file named sentences with Spanish me falta práctica en Español and get back the English translation using Microsoft

$ curl -X PUT --data-binary @sentences http://localhost:9998/translate/all/org.apache.tika.language.translate.MicrosoftTranslator/es/en
I need practice in Spanish

PUT a TXT file named sentences with Spanish me falta práctica en Español and get back the English translation using Google

$ curl -X PUT --data-binary @sentences http://localhost:9998/translate/all/org.apache.tika.language.translate.GoogleTranslator/es/en
I need practice in Spanish

/translate/all/src/dest

HTTP PUTs or POSTs a document to the identified *translator* and auto-detects the *src* language using LanguageIdentifiers, and then translates *src* to *dest*

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PUT a TXT file named sentences2 with French comme çi comme ça and get back the English translation using Google auto-detecting the language

$ curl -X PUT --data-binary @sentences2 http://localhost:9998/translate/all/org.apache.tika.language.translate.GoogleTranslator/en
so so

Recursive Metadata and Content

/rmeta

Returns a JSONified list of Metadata objects for the container document and all embedded documents. The text that is extracted from each document is stored in the metadata object under "X-TIKA:content".

$ curl -T test_recursive_embedded.docx http://localhost:9998/rmeta

Returns:

[
 {"Application-Name":"Microsoft Office Word",
  "Application-Version":"15.0000",
  "X-Parsed-By":["org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser","org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.ooxml.OOXMLParser"],
  "X-TIKA:content":"embed_0 "
  ...
 },
 {"Content-Encoding":"ISO-8859-1",
  "Content-Length":"8",
  "Content-Type":"text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1"
  "X-TIKA:content":"embed_1b",
  ...
 }
 ...
]

The default format for "X-TIKA:content" is XML. However, you can select "text only" with

/rmeta/text

HTML with

/rmeta/html

and no content (metadata only) with

/rmeta/ignore

Multipart Support

Metadata Resource also accepts the files as multipart/form-data attachments with POST. Posting files as multipart attachments may be beneficial in cases when the files are too big for them to be PUT directly in the request body. Note that Tika JAX-RS server makes the best effort at storing some of the multipart content to the disk while still supporting the streaming:

curl -F upload=@test_recursive_embedded.docx URL http://localhost:9998/rmeta/form

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See the TikaEval page for more details.  Please open issues on our JIRA if you would like other statistics included or if you'd like to make the calculated statistics configurable.

Unpack Resource

/unpack

HTTP PUTs an embedded document type to the /unpack service and you get back a zip or tar of the raw bytes of the embedded files.  Note that this does not operate recursively; it extracts only the child documents of the original file.

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PUT zip file and get back met file zip

$ curl -X PUT --data-binary @foo.zip http://localhost:9998/unpack --header "Content-type: application/zip"

PUT doc file and get back met file tar

$ curl -T Doc1_ole.doc -H "Accept: application/x-tar" http://localhost:9998/unpack > /var/tmp/x.tar

PUT doc file and get back the content and metadata

$ curl -T Doc1_ole.doc http://localhost:9998/unpack/all > /var/tmp/x.zip

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Available Endpoints

/

Hitting the route of the server in your web browser will give a basic report of all the endpoints defined in the server, what URL they have etc

Defined Mime Types

/mime-types

Mime types, their aliases, their supertype, and the parser. Available as plain text, json or human readable HTML

Available Detectors

/detectors

The top level Detector to be used, and any child detectors within it. Available as plain text, json or human readable HTML

Available Parsers

/parsers

Lists all of the parsers currently available

/parsers/details

List all the available parsers, along with what mimetypes they support

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In Tika 1.14, we added the capability back, but the user has to acknowledge the security risk by including two commandline arguments:

$ java -jar tika-server-x.x.jar -enableUnsecureFeatures -enableFileUrl

This allows the user to specify a fileUrl in the header:

curl -i -H "fileUrl:http://tika.apache.org" -H "Accept:text/plain" -X PUT http://localhost:9998/tika

or

curl -i -H "fileUrl:file:///C:/data/my_test_doc.pdf" -H "Accept:text/plain" -X PUT http://localhost:9998/tika

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NOTE 2: In Tika 1.x, to specify the JVM args for the child process, prepend the arguments with -J as in -JXmx4g after the -jar tika-server.x.x.jar call as in:

$ java -Dlog4j.configuration=file:log4j_server.xml -jar tika-server-x.x.jar -spawnChild -JXmx4g -JDlog4j.configuration=file:log4j_child.xml}}

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If you are new to TLS, see our README.txt for how we generated client and server keystores and truststores for our unit tests.

Configuring Parsers at Parse time/per file

See Configuring Parsers At Parse Time in tika-server.

Architecture

Tika Server is based on JSR 311 for a network serve. The server package uses the Apache CXF framework that provides an implementation of JAX-RS for Java.