You are here

Home » API reference » Search File Attachments 8

README.txt in Search File Attachments 8

Same filename and directory in other branches
  1. 7 README.txt
Search File Attachments

This modules allows the indexing and searching of file attachments. It will
extract the content of attached files using the Apache Tika library and
index it. Search File Attachments will index many file formats, including
MS Office documents, PDFs, EPUB, JPEG metadata, ...

More information about the Apache Tika library:
http://tika.apache.org/download.html

REQUIREMENTS
============
Requires the ability to run java on your server (for the Apache Tika library)
and an installation of the Apache Tika library.

In your PHP settings (php.ini) the Safe Mode must be disabled and the exec()
function should not be disabled.

INSTALLATION
============
1. Install java on your machine, if not yet done.
2. Download the Apache Tika library: http://tika.apache.org/download.html
     > wget http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/tika/tika-app-1.1.jar
3. Copy the search_file_attachments module direcotry into your modules folder.
4. Install the search_file_attachments module on your Drupal site.
5. Go to the configuration page: admin/config/search/file_attachments
   5.1. Set the full path to the tika-app-x.x.jar file from step 2.
        e.g. /var/apache-tika/
   5.2. Enter the name of the jar file: e.g. tika-app-1.xx.jar
6. Go to the search configuration page: /admin/config/search/pages
   and add a new search page for "Files".

MAINTAINER
==========
- cbeier (Christian Beier)

File

README.txt
View source 
  1. Search File Attachments

  2. 

  3. This modules allows the indexing and searching of file attachments. It will

  4. extract the content of attached files using the Apache Tika library and

  5. index it. Search File Attachments will index many file formats, including

  6. MS Office documents, PDFs, EPUB, JPEG metadata, ...

  7. 

  8. More information about the Apache Tika library:

  9. http://tika.apache.org/download.html

  10. 

  11. REQUIREMENTS

  12. ============

  13. Requires the ability to run java on your server (for the Apache Tika library)

  14. and an installation of the Apache Tika library.

  15. 

  16. In your PHP settings (php.ini) the Safe Mode must be disabled and the exec()

  17. function should not be disabled.

  18. 

  19. INSTALLATION

  20. ============

  21. 1. Install java on your machine, if not yet done.

  22. 2. Download the Apache Tika library: http://tika.apache.org/download.html

  23.      > wget http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/tika/tika-app-1.1.jar

  24. 3. Copy the search_file_attachments module direcotry into your modules folder.

  25. 4. Install the search_file_attachments module on your Drupal site.

  26. 5. Go to the configuration page: admin/config/search/file_attachments

  27.    5.1. Set the full path to the tika-app-x.x.jar file from step 2.

  28.         e.g. /var/apache-tika/

  29.    5.2. Enter the name of the jar file: e.g. tika-app-1.xx.jar

  30. 6. Go to the search configuration page: /admin/config/search/pages

  31.    and add a new search page for "Files".

  32. 

  33. MAINTAINER

  34. ==========

  35. - cbeier (Christian Beier)