2.4. Summary

Our goal in this chapter was to highlight the power of Tika, be it from a command-line shell, GUI, or by integrating Tika into your existing Java code. Along the way we covered the ancillary steps (tips for using Tika from a command shell, downloading Maven or Subversion) as well, but didn’t spend much time since most of those topics are the subjects of books in their own right.

The simplest and most visual method of using Tika is via its GUI, a thin wrapper around the tika-parsers module which exposes the ability to extract structured text, metadata, and plain text from any type of content through drag and drop. A lot of power with little barrier to entry.