This is a simple PHP Wrapper for Apache Tika.

It allows the developer to retrieve text, metadata and language from complex documents.

It supports opendocument, office .doc and .docx, pdf, images, videos and a lot more !

See http://tika.apache.org/1.1/formats.html for details.

Add the package dependency enzim/tika-wrapper in your composer.json

    {
        "require": {
            "ninoskopac/php-tika-wrapper": "~1.0" 
        }   
    }

Install the new package with composer, and that's it!

php composer.phar install

For convenience, the package include the tika-app jar file, which is quite big (25MB). The download may take time!

See http://packagist.org for more details. (Don't forget to add require 'vendor/.composer/autoload.php'; in your autoloading php file).

See example/ (more docs to come soon) for an example:

    git clone git@github.com:pierroweb/PhpTikaWrapper.git
    cd PhpTikaWrapper
    
    cd example/with-composer
    curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php
    php composer.phar install
    php usage.php

In your own project, assuming you have an opendocument test.odt in the current directory

    <?php
    use Enzim\Lib\TikaWrapper\TikaWrapper;

    $testFile = __DIR__."/test.odt";

    $plaintext = TikaWrapper::getText($testFile);
    $metadataArray = TikaWrapper::getMetaData($testFile);
    $language = TikaWrapper::getLanguage($testFile);

Available methods (they all take a string, the full path of the file, as argument)

• getText($file) returns a string containing the document in plain-text

• getTextMain($file) returns a string containing only the main text of the doc

• getXHTML($file) returns a string containing an XHTML (xml-valid) conversion of the document

• getHTML($file) returns a string containing an HTML conversion of the document

• getContentType($file) returns the content type of the document. Example outputs for opendocument, docx and pdf:

    application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
    application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
    application/pdf
  

• getLanguage($file) returns the language of the documeent. Example output: en for english, fr for french, etc

• getMetaData($file) returns a PHP array with the metadata. Ex:

    Array  
    (
        [Character Count] => 41
        [Content-Length] => 8686
        [Content-Type] => application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
        [Creation-Date] => 2012-04-12T11:44:14
        [Edit-Time] => PT00H00M39S
        [Image-Count] => 0
        [Object-Count] => 0
        [Page-Count] => 1
        [Paragraph-Count] => 2
        [Table-Count] => 0
        [Word-Count] => 9
        [creator] => *******
        [date] => 2012-04-12T11:44:52
        [editing-cycles] => 1
        [generator] => OpenOffice.org/3.2$Linux OpenOffice.org_project/320m12$Build-9483
        [initial-creator] => Pierre B
        [nbCharacter] => 41
        [nbImg] => 0
        [nbObject] => 0
        [nbPage] => 1
        [nbPara] => 2
        [nbTab] => 0
        [nbWord] => 9
        [resourceName] => test.odt
        [xmpTPg:NPages] => 1
    )
  

• set a pretty print option (to use option -r for html/xhtml)
• allows the use of tika-server transparently to avoid loading the JVM on each request

Supported by this lib: https://github.com/vaites/php-apache-tika

• http://tika.apache.org
• It uses the Symfony Process component http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/process.html