ftw.tika
========
This product integrates `Apache Tika <http://tika.apache.org/>`_ for full text
indexing with **Plone** by providing portal transforms to ``text/plain`` for the
various document formats supported by Tika.
Compatibility
-------------
``ftw.tika`` is compatible with Plone 4.x and the Tika versions listed below
(Plone and Tika versions can be mixed and matched).
+------------+------------+
| Tika 1.6 | Plone 4.2 |
+------------+------------+
| Tika 1.7 | Plone 4.3 |
+------------+------------+
| Tika 1.8 | Plone 5.1 |
+------------+------------+
| Tika 1.9 | |
+------------+------------+
| Tika 1.10 | |
+------------+------------+
| Tika 1.11 | |
+------------+------------+
Supported Formats
=================
Input Formats
-------------
* Microsoft Office formats (Office Open XML)
- ``*.docx`` Word Documents
- ``*.dotx`` Word Templates
- ``*.xlsx`` Excel Sheets
- ``*.xltx`` Excel Templates
- ``*.pptx`` Powerpoint Presentations
- ``*.potx`` Powerpoint Templates
- ``*.ppsx`` Powerpoint Slideshows
* Legacy Microsoft Office (97) formats
* Rich Text Format
* OpenOffice ODF formats
* OpenOffice 1.x formats
* Common Adobe formats (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop)
* PDF documents
* WordPerfect documents
* E-Mail messages
See the `mimetypes <https://github.com/4teamwork/ftw.tika/blob/master/ftw/tika/mimetypes/__init__.py>`_
module for details on the MIME types corresponding to these formats.
Formats supported by Tika, but not wired up (yet)
-------------------------------------------------
* Electronic Publication Format
* Compression and packaging formats
* Audio formats
* Image formats
* Video formats
* Java class files and archives
* The mbox format
See the `Supported Document Formats <http://tika.apache.org/1.4/formats.html>`_
page on the Apache Tika Wiki for details.
Output Formats
--------------
* ``text/plain``
Installation
============
The preferred method to run the Tika JAX-RS server as a daemon. Although it is
possible to run Tika without a daemon (by booting it up for each time a file
is converted), the daemon is a lot faster.
Both methods require ``tika-app.jar`` to be downloaded and some ZCML
configuration for ``ftw.tika``. The daemon method also requires the JAX-RS
``tika-server.app`` to be downloaded.
Below are some configuration examples.
Daemon buildout example
-----------------------
See the included `tika.cfg`_ for a deamon example that you can adjust as
necessary, copy into your buildout and extend from:
.. code:: ini
[buildout]
parts +=
tika-app-download
tika-server-download
tika-server
[tika]
server-port = 9998
zcml =
<configure xmlns:tika="http://namespaces.plone.org/tika">
<tika:config path="${tika-app-download:destination}/${tika-app-download:filename}"
port="${tika:server-port}" />
</configure>
[tika-app-download]
recipe = hexagonit.recipe.download
url = http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/tika/tika-app/1.11/tika-app-1.11.jar
md5sum = c292fbb0b28fbe44f915229afb839db8
download-only = true
filename = tika-app.jar
[tika-server-download]
recipe = hexagonit.recipe.download
url = http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/tika/tika-server/1.11/tika-server-1.11.jar
md5sum = 3c8fb21140213a2f3fbac770358034ab
download-only = true
filename = tika-server.jar
[tika-server]
recipe = collective.recipe.scriptgen
cmd = java
arguments = -jar ${tika-server-download:destination}/${tika-server-download:filename} --port ${tika:server-port} -includeStack
[instance]
zcml-additional = ${tika:zcml}
eggs += ftw.tika
.. note:: The ``-includeStack`` command line option for the Tika JAXRS server
is only available for Tika >= 1.8. If you're using an older version of Tika,
omit it from the arguments.
The option will make the Tika JAXRS server return Java stack traces in the
response body in case of conversion failures, and therefore allow
``ftw.tika`` to provide more detailed error logging.
If your deployment buildout is based on the deployment buildouts included
in the `ftw-buildouts`_ repository on github, you can simply extend the
``tika-jaxrs-server.cfg`` and you have everything configured:
.. code:: ini
[buildout]
extends =
https://raw.github.com/4teamwork/ftw-buildouts/master/production.cfg
https://raw.github.com/4teamwork/ftw-buildouts/master/zeoclients/4.cfg
https://raw.github.com/4teamwork/ftw-buildouts/master/tika-jaxrs-server.cfg
deployment-number = 05
filestorage-parts =
www.mywebsite.com
instance-eggs =
mywebsite
Non-daemon buildout example
---------------------------
Note that running Tika in non-daemon mode is very, very slow!
When you don't want to use Tika as daemon, you can simply just configure
the path to the ``tika-app.jar`` in the ``ftw.tika`` ZCML configuration and it
will fire up ``tika-app.jar`` (in a new JVM) every time something needs to be
converted.
Here is a short example of how to download the ``tika-app.jar`` and
configuring ``ftw.tika`` with buildout:
.. code:: ini
[buildout]
parts +=
tika-app
[tika-app]
recipe = hexagonit.recipe.download
url = http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/tika/tika-app/1.11/tika-app-1.11.jar
md5sum = c292fbb0b28fbe44f915229afb839db8
download-only = true
filename = tika-app.jar
[instance]
eggs += ftw.tika
zcml-additional =
<configure xmlns:tika="http://namespaces.plone.org/tika">
<tika:config path="${tika-app:destination}/${tika-app:filename}" />
</configure>
Different Host buildout example
-------------------------------
If you already have a tika server (f.e. docker) you can connect to it without
having to install it into the plone instance. Unfortunately if the system run
into a timeout it will still try to use the local one as backup. (And produce
an error in the log file)
.. code:: ini
[buildout]
[tika]
server-port = 9998
server-host = myhost
server-timeout = 10
zcml =
<configure xmlns:tika="http://namespaces.plone.org/tika">
<tika:config host="${tika:server-host}"
port="${tika:server-port}"
timeout="${tika:server-timeout}" />
</configure>
[instance]
zcml-additional = ${tika:zcml}
eggs += ftw.tika
You have the following configuration Options:
* ``host``: the host where tika is running
* ``port``: the port of the tika server
* ``timeout``: you can define the connection timeout of the server in seconds
``timeout`` defaults to 10 seconds and is configurable for your needs.
0 means no timeout at all.
Installing ftw.tika in Plone
----------------------------
- Install ``ftw.tika`` by adding it to the list of eggs in your buildout.
(The buildout examples above include adding ``ftw.tika`` to the eggs).
.. code:: ini
[instance]
eggs +=
ftw.tika
- Run buildout and start your instance
- Go to Site Setup of your Plone site and activate the ``ftw.tika`` add-on,
or depend on the ``ftw.tika:default`` profile from your package's
``metadata.xml``.
Uninstalling ftw.tika
---------------------
``ftw.tika`` has an uninstall profile. To uninstall ``ftw.tika``, import the
``ftw.tika:uninstall`` profile using the ``portal_setup`` tool.
Configuration
=============
``ftw.tika`` expects to be provided with a path to an installed
``tika-app.jar``. This can be done through ZCML, and therefore also
through buildout.
Configuration in ZCML
---------------------
The path to the ``tika-app.jar`` file must be configured in ZCML.
If you used the supplied
`tika.cfg <https://github.com/4teamwork/ftw.tika/blob/master/tika.cfg>`_
as described above, you can reference the download location directly from
buildout by using ``${tika:destination}/${tika:filename}``:
.. code:: ini
[instance]
zcml-additional =
<configure xmlns:tika="http://namespaces.plone.org/tika">
<tika:config path="${tika:destination}/${tika:filename}" />
</configure>
If you installed Tika yourself, just set ``path="/path/to/tika"`` accordingly.
Usage
=====
To use ``ftw.tika``, simply ask the ``portal_transforms`` tool for a
transformation to ``text/plain`` from one of the input formats supported by
``ftw.tika``:
.. code:: python
namedfile = self.context.file
transform_tool = getToolByName(self.context, 'portal_transforms')
stream = transform_tool.convertTo(
'text/plain',
namedfile.data,
mimetype=namedfile.contentType)
plain_text = stream and stream.getData() or ''
Caching
-------
If you want the result of the transform to be cached, you'll need to pass a
persistent ZODB object to `transform_tool.convertTo()` to store the cached
result on.
For example, for a ``NamedBlobFile`` versioned with CMFEditions you'd
use ``namedfile.data`` to access the data of the current working copy, and
pass ``namedfile._blob`` as the object for the cache to be stored on (the
``namedfile`` is always the same instance for any version, only the ``_blob``
changes):
.. code:: python
stream = transform_tool.convertTo(
'text/plain',
namedfile.data,
mimetype=namedfile.contentType,
object=namedfile._blob)
Stand-alone converter
---------------------
The code calling Tika is encapsulated in its own class, so if for some reason
you don't want to use the ``portal_transforms`` tool, you can also use the
converter directly by just instanciating it:
.. code:: python
from ftw.tika.converter import TikaConverter
data = StringIO('foo')
converter = TikaConverter(path="/path/to/tika-app.jar")
plain_text = converter.convert(data)
The ``convert()`` method accepts either a data string or a file-like stream
object. If no ``path`` keyword argument is supplied, the converter tries to
get the path to the ``tika-app.jar`` from the ZCML configuration.
Error logging
-------------
In order to get more detailed error logging when using the Tika JAXRS server,
you can launch it with the ``-includeStack`` command line option and set the
environment variable ``FTW_TIKA_VERBOSE_LOGGING`` to something truthy.
``ftw.tika`` will then additionally log the output from Tika (which should
contain the Java stack trace) in case of a conversion failure, giving you more
information as to why the conversion failed.
Links
=====
- Github: https://github.com/4teamwork/ftw.tika
- Issues: https://github.com/4teamwork/ftw.tika/issues
- Pypi: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ftw.tika
- Continuous integration: https://jenkins.4teamwork.ch/search?q=ftw.tika
- Apache Tika: http://tika.apache.org
Copyright
=========
This package is copyright by `4teamwork <http://www.4teamwork.ch/>`_.
``ftw.tika`` is licensed under GNU General Public License, version 2.
.. _ftw-buildouts: https://github.com/4teamwork/ftw-buildouts#production
.. _tika.cfg: https://github.com/4teamwork/ftw.tika/blob/master/tika.cfg
Changelog
=========
2.10.0 (2019-09-04)
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- Port to Plone 5.1
2.9.0 (2017-12-19)
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- Remove local fallback when server fails. [jone]
2.8.0 (2017-12-18)
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- Drop Plone 4.1 support. [jone]
2.7.0 (2016-03-15)
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- Use requests session. [jone]
- Make connection timeout configurable. [dready]
2.6.0 (2015-10-27)
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- Add support for Tika 1.11
[lgraf]
2.5.0 (2015-10-27)
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- Add support for Tika 1.10
[lgraf]
2.4.0 (2015-10-27)
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- Add support for Tika 1.9
[lgraf]
2.3.0 (2015-10-27)
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- Fall back to local Tika on any RequestException, not just Timeout.
[lgraf]
- Make use of the fact that Tika JAXRS server now can return the Java stack
traces in the response body, allowing ftw.tika to provide better error
logging in the case of conversion failures (for example, detecting that
conversion failed because a document is password protected).
[lgraf]
- Add support for Tika 1.8
[lgraf]
2.2.0 (2015-10-25)
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- Add support for Tika 1.7
[lgraf]
2.1.0 (2015-10-25)
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- Add support for Tika 1.6
[lgraf]
2.0.1 (2014-12-08)
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- Set a default connection timeout of 10s for requests to Tika JAXRS server.
[lgraf]
2.0 (2014-11-24)
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- Switch to Tika JAXRS server component (tika-server).
[lgraf]
1.1.2 (2014-09-01)
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- Changed tika source to archive.apache.org.
[lknoepfel]
- Extend integration tests to test conversion of all common
formats we claim to support.
[lgraf]
- Updated tika to version 1.5.
Updated detection of protected office files.
[lknoepfel]
1.1.1 (2014-04-01)
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- Only log a warning on protected PDFs / MS Office documents.
[jone]
1.1.0 (2014-03-14)
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- Add support for running tika as a deamon.
The deamon speeds up the conversion from approximately
1.1 seconds per document to 0.06 seconds.
[jone]
1.0 (2013-11-29)
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- First implementation.
[lgraf]