Elastika

Command line utility that extracts the metadata and plain text content of files supported by Apache Tika and send them to the Elastic server.

Relases

v0.9

Usage

Once downloaded, place the tika-app.jar file that it´s placed inside the libs/ folder on the same folder that contains your elastika.jar. Now, you're ready to use Elastika.

Note: this document assumes that the final user does have Elastic installed and running at least on localhost or in some host that you can specify with the following options.

Options:

usage: elastika
 -i,--indice <arg>   (Required) Elastic indice name.
 -t,--type <arg>     (Required) Elastic indice type name.
 -f,--file <arg>     (Required) The document to be parsed and sent to
                     Elastic.
 
 -h,--host <arg>     (Optional) Elastic REST Endpoint hostname. Default
                     http://localhost.
 -p,--port <arg>     (Optional) Elastic REST Endpoint port. Default 9200.
 
 -?,--help           Print this usage message
 -v,--version        Display version information

Usage sample:

axier$ java -jar elastika.jar -i myIndice -t myType --file my_fancy_document.pdf

Outputs:

# Extracting JSON Metadata from the file
Executing: java -jar tika-app.jar -j my_fancy_document.pdf

# Extracting the plain text content from the file
Executing: java -jar tika-app.jar -T my_fancy_document.pdf

# Result of the POST to Elastic
{"_type":"data","_version":1,"_id":"AU12rlvKHYuWDiEyeqrY","created":true,"_index":"ekt"}

Building

On the first place the code into your java project Eclipse. Now, for generating the jar file just follow this simple steps:

• Right click on your project and click on Export
• Select Java > JAR File and click Next
• Enter the path of the folder where you want to leave the jar file on the Select the export destination section and click Next and Next again.
• Now, on the JAR Manifest Specification part, on the Select the class of the application entry point select Browse and then select Elastika
• Click Finish and you're done

Libraries

• Apache Commons Cli
• Apache Commons IO
• Apache Tika 1.8

License

EUPL v1.1

Copyright 2015 Irontec SL

Licensed under the EUPL, Version 1.1 or - as soon they will be approved by the European Commission - subsequent versions of the EUPL (the "Licence"); You may not use this work except in compliance with the Licence.

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