[TIKA-179] Tika stand alone CLI --text output mostly not working, other output formats are fine

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.2, 0.3
• Fix Version/s: 0.3
• Component/s: cli

Environment

Java 1.5 (also tried Java 1.6). OS used: Mac OS X, Linux (CentOS)

• Assignee: Jukka Zitting
• Reporter: Paul Borgermans
• Created: 06/Dec/08 16:07
• Updated: 22/May/09 22:04
• Resolved: 07/Dec/08 19:10

Description

When using Tika standalone jar after mvn install in CLI mode, in most of my test documents (pdf, doc, ppt, odt, ), the plain text output option (-t or --text) does not produce any result. When using the other options (xml, html, metadata), the output is correct. Activating debug mode (-v) does not produce additional info either.

When using the GUI, dragging and dropping does produce the expected results, also in the plain text tab/window

I rebuilt tika many times in the past 2 months (cleared .m2 directory every time) from svn (latest revision tried: 724002), the CLI --text result is always the same: usually missing output.

For now, I use the -x output option chained to html2txt as a workaround, but would prefer to use just tika to convert to plain text (which is used for further indexing in Solr).

Thanks