[TIKA-3571] Add an interface for rendering engines

• Type: Wish
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.1
• Assignee: Tim Allison
• Reporter: Tim Allison
• Created: 13/Oct/21 13:07
• Updated: 20/Jun/22 19:16
• Resolved: 20/Jun/22 19:16

Description

We've now seen a few requests for extracting text and rendering PDFs, and certainly it might be useful to have alternatives for rendering files (e.g. this Alfresco study), including MSOffice or at least PPTx...

And there are cases where users don't want the rendered images, but they do want OCR to be run against the rendered images.

I doubt I'll have a chance to work on this for a while, but I wanted to open an issue for discussion.