[TIKA-154] Better detection of plain text versus binary formats with a text header

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.3
• Component/s: mime
• Assignee: Jukka Zitting
• Reporter: Jukka Zitting
• Created: 04/Aug/08 07:57
• Updated: 22/May/09 22:04
• Resolved: 17/Jan/09 01:16

Description

Antoni Mylka noted on the mailing list:

Many binary formats begin with magic byte sequences composed of ASCII characters, e.g.
zipfiles begin with PK
pdfs begin with %PDF-
chms help files begin with ITSF
etc.

Tika should do a better job of detecting such cases.