[TIKA-2473] PCX and DCX image support

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.16
• Component/s: parser
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Matthew Caruana Galizia
• Created: 06/Oct/17 10:31
• Updated: 02/Oct/18 20:07

Description

It's straightforward in theory to implement support for PCX and DCX. There's support for it in Commons Imaging as well as in ImageIO via TwelveMonkeys.

In practise, however, I'm not really sure how implement support. We obviously want to OCR the images, but Tesseract has no support for the format. So where do we do the conversion to a BufferedImage? I tried to look for what is done to handle JBIG2 files but I can't find that anywhere.

Sub-Tasks

• Extend PCX detection in tika-mimetypes.xml: Open