Developer Guide
Table of Contents
This section provides documentation for developers who want to extend Tika with custom parsers, detectors, and other components.
Topics
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Serialization and Configuration - JSON configuration, @TikaComponent annotation, and creating custom components
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Adding a Metadata Key - the Property/KeyPrefix registry, naming conventions, and regenerating the schema
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Wiring in Your Own OCR Engine - a text recognizer class, its packaging, the three lines of config, and how to verify it ran
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Writing a Pipes Plugin - implementing a fetcher, emitter, iterator or reporter and packaging it for PF4J