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Tika Text File Extraction
To extract text file, Tika provides TXTParser class. This class is used to extract content and metadata from text file. It is located into org.apache.tika.parser.txt package.
This class contains constructor and methods that are tabled below.
Tika TextParser Constructor
| Constructor | Description |
|---|---|
| public TXTParser() | It is used to create instance of the class. |
| public TXTParser(EncodingDetector encodingDetector) | It creates instance with encoding detector. |
Tika TextParser Methods
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| public Set<MediaType> getSupportedTypes(ParseContext context) | It returns the set of media types supported by this parser. |
| public void parse(InputStream stream, ContentHandler handler, Metadata metadata, ParseContext context) throws IOException, SAXException, TikaException | It parses a document stream into a sequence of XHTML SAX events. |
Tika Text File Extraction Example
In this example, we are extracting content and metadata from a text file. See the below example.
//tutoraspire.txt
Our text file content.
Welcome to the tutoraspire.
tutoraspire is a Technical portal that contains latest computer science topics.
Output:
Document Content:Welcome to the tutoraspire. tutoraspire is a Technical portal that contains latest computer science topics. Document Metadata: Content-Encoding: ISO-8859-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
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