org.apache.tika.parser
Class ExternalParser

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.tika.parser.ExternalParser

All Implemented Interfaces:

Parser

public class ExternalParser
extends Object
implements Parser

Parser that uses an external program (like catdoc or pdf2txt) to extract text content from a given document.

Constructor Summary

ExternalParser()

Method Summary

void	parse(InputStream stream, ContentHandler handler, Metadata metadata) Deprecated. This method will be removed in Apache Tika 1.0.
void	parse(InputStream stream, ContentHandler handler, Metadata metadata, ParseContext context) Executes the configured external command and passes the given document stream as a simple XHTML document to the given SAX content handler.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ExternalParser

public ExternalParser()

Method Detail

parse

public void parse(InputStream stream,
                  ContentHandler handler,
                  Metadata metadata,
                  ParseContext context)
           throws IOException,
                  SAXException,
                  TikaException

Executes the configured external command and passes the given document stream as a simple XHTML document to the given SAX content handler. No metadata is extracted.

Specified by:

parse in interface Parser

Parameters:

stream - the document stream (input)

handler - handler for the XHTML SAX events (output)

metadata - document metadata (input and output)

context - parse context

Throws:

IOException - if the document stream could not be read

SAXException - if the SAX events could not be processed

TikaException - if the document could not be parsed

parse

public void parse(InputStream stream,
                  ContentHandler handler,
                  Metadata metadata)
           throws IOException,
                  SAXException,
                  TikaException

Deprecated. This method will be removed in Apache Tika 1.0.

Description copied from interface: Parser

The parse() method from Tika 0.4 and earlier. Please use the #parse(InputStream, ContentHandler, Metadata, Map) method instead in new code. Calls to this backwards compatibility method are forwarded to the new parse() method with an empty parse context.

Specified by:

parse in interface Parser

Throws:

IOException

SAXException

TikaException