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PHP Apache Tika

This tool provides Apache Tika bindings for PHP, allowing to extract text and metadata from documents, images and other formats.

The following modes are supported:

Server mode is recommended because is 5 times faster, but some shared hosts don't allow run processes in background.

Although the library contains a list of supported versions, any version of Apache Tika should be compatible as long as backward compatibility is maintained by Tika team. Therefore, it is not necessary to wait for an update of the library to work with the new versions of the tool.

Features

Requirements

Installation

Install using Composer:

If you want to use OCR you must install Tesseract:

The library assumes tesseract binary is in path, so you can compile it yourself or install using any other method.

Usage

Start Apache Tika server with caution:

If you are using JRE instead of JDK, you must run if you have Java 9 or greater:

Instantiate the class, checking if JAR exists or server is running:

If you want to use dependency injection, serialize the class or just delay the check:

You can use an URL too:

Use the class to extract text from documents:

Or use to extract text from images:

You can use an URL instead of a file path and the library will download the file and pass it to Apache Tika. There's no need to add -enableUnsecureFeatures -enableFileUrl to command line when starting the server, as described here.

Methods

Here are the full list of available methods

Common

Tika file related methods:

Other Tika related methods:

Encoding methods:

Supported versions related methods:

Set/get a callback for sequential read of response:

Set/get the chunk size for secuential read:

Enable/disable the internal remote file downloader:

Command line client

Set/get JAR/Java paths (only CLI mode):

Web client

Set/get host properties

Set/get cURL client options

Set/get cURL client common options:

Troubleshooting

Empty responses or unexpected results

This library is only a proxy so if you get an empy responses or unexpected results the most common cause is Tika itself. A simple test is using the GUI to check the response:

  1. Run the Tika app without arguments: java -jar tika-app-x.xx.jar
  2. Drop your file or select it using File -> Open
  3. Wait until the metadata appears
  4. Get the text or HTML using View menu

If the results are the same, you must take a look into Tika's Jira and open an issue if necessary.

Encoding

By default the returned text is encoded with UTF-8 but there are some issues with the encoding when using the app mode. The Client::setEncoding() method allows to set the expected encoding (this will be fixed in the upcoming 1.0 release).

Tests

Tests are designed to cover all features for all supported versions of Apache Tika in app mode and server mode. There are a few samples to test against:

Known issues

There are some issues found during tests, not related with this library:

Integrations


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