[support] How to parse files using Drupal 7, Search API and Tika?

[Liviu Nicolicioiu]

What do you think if you use pdf2txt unix and put in a cck field?

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Florian Auer <lists at floeschie.org> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 7. Dezember 2011, 20:19:58 schrieb Florian Auer:
>> Is there someone who successfully got Drupal 7, Search API and Tika working together?
>
> Finally I got it working. The documentation is somewhat incomplete, so here's what i did to get Drupal 7, Search API and Tika running on Debian Squeeze:
>
>
> == 1. Download Tika source archive ==
> Go to [1] and copy the link URL to the archive on your favourite mirror and download it using wget:
>
> $ wget [URL]
>
>
> == 2. Extract Tika source archive to /opt ==
> $ cd /opt
> # unzip /path/to/apache-tika-X.Y-src.zip
>
>
> == 3. Install maven2 package ==
> # apt-get install maven2
>
>
> == 4. Compile Tika using Maven ==
> $ cd tika-X.Y
> # MAVEN_OPTS=-Xmx256m mvn clean install
>
> (This might take a while…)
>
>
> == 5. Download and enable the required Drupal modules ==
> drush dl search_api search_api_attachments search_api_db
> drush en search_api search_api_attachments search_api_db
>
>
> == 6. Configure Drupal to use Tika ==
> - Login to Drupal admin backend
> - Open Search API settings
> - Create a new server (Database)
> - Create a new index or use existing one
> - In your index settings, switch to "Workflow" tab
> - In "Data alterations" area enable "File attachments"
> - Got to "Fields" tab
> - Enable "File content" field for indexing
>
>
> == 7. Edit Search API attachment module ==
> Note: This is only needed if you use version 7.x-1.0, should be already fixed in newer versions (see patch 3048482a89a1a587feab78f2d5ea92c4b5642898 on [2])
>
> - Go to the module's directory (if you used drush, this should be DRUPAL_HOME/sites/all/modules/search_api_attachments)
> - Open file include/callback_attachments_settings.inc in your favourite editor
> - Replace any occurences of "entity_type" by "item_type" (see issue on [3])
>
>
> == 8. Verify Tika is working and called by Drupal ==
> - Open file include/callback_attachments_settings.inc again
> - Add the following PHP code at the end of the file, right before the last return command (line 141-ish)
>
>  syslog(LOG_INFO, 'Calling Tika: ' . $cmd);
>
> - Save and close the file
> - Tail your syslog (# tail -f /var/log/syslog)
> - Got to Search API settings in Drupal backend
> - Re-index your site
> - You should see some messages telling you the Tika command and the file which is indexed
>
>
> This is a rather quick'n'dirty documentation, but I don't have time for more and the git repo for Search AP attachments isn't working properly, so I cannot create patches right now. If you have any questions, let me know!
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Florian
>
> [1] http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/tika/apache-tika-1.0-src.zip
> [2] http://drupalcode.org/project/search_api_attachments.git/patch/3048482a89a1a587feab78f2d5ea92c4b5642898
> [3] http://drupal.org/node/1253824
> --
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