How can I use Tika package in python(2.7) to parse PDF files?

Question

Can anyone help me, how can I utilize the Tika package in python(2.7) to parse the PDF files?

Answer 1

Click this link, If you want to install the Tika server jar.

1. Download the Jar
2. Store it somewhere and run it as java -jar tika-server-x.x.jar --port xxxx
3. In your Code you now don't need to do the tika.initVM() Add tika.TikaClientOnly = True instead of tika.initVM()
4. Change parsed = parser.from_file('/path/to/file') to parsed = parser.from_file('/path/to/file', '/path/to/server') You will get the server path in Step 2. when the tika server initiates - just plug that in here

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