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> at least they are using Tika Why is that important? Is it advantageous versus the alternatives? (Genuinely curious) I have been using GNU libextractor but I
by decasteve 8y ago
> at least they are using Tika
Why is that important? Is it advantageous versus the alternatives? (Genuinely curious)
I have been using GNU libextractor but I see Tika quite often brought up in the same breath. When I tried Tika a while back I didn't find it as good nor as fast. Has that changed?
- arafalov 8y agoTika is a very active project that Solr also uses. And they rely on other good libraries. If libextractor is sufficient for you, that's great. If you hit its limitation, try Tika. Some use-cases I know of include - Parsing Microsoft Office Files - Doing OCR on images - Running Tika as a standalone server with HTTP interface Tika is most definitely a secret component inside a lot of systems that extract content/metadata from files. So, Dropbox leveraging Tika was a good move and worth recognizing. Especially, given that the rest of their choices does not quite make sense (based on the limited information provided).