Tika in Action

Chapter 9. The big picture

 

This chapter covers

• Using Tika in search engines
• Document management systems
• Modularity and scalability

 

It’s time to start thinking big. After looking at the details of how Tika works, you’re probably already thinking of how to integrate it with your applications. The purpose of this chapter is to give you ideas about where and how Tika best fits with different kinds of applications, architectures, and requirements.

We’ll do this in two parts. First we’ll focus on functionality and look at common information-processing systems. We’ll start with search engines and then look at document management and text mining as examples of other information-processing systems where Tika comes in handy. The question is about ...