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Posted to commits@tika.apache.org by ju...@apache.org on 2009/07/18 00:38:53 UTC
svn commit: r795257 - /lucene/tika/trunk/README.txt
Author: jukka
Date: Fri Jul 17 22:38:52 2009
New Revision: 795257
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=795257&view=rev
Log:
Improved instructions for getting started with Tika.
Modified:
lucene/tika/trunk/README.txt
Modified: lucene/tika/trunk/README.txt
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/tika/trunk/README.txt?rev=795257&r1=795256&r2=795257&view=diff
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--- lucene/tika/trunk/README.txt (original)
+++ lucene/tika/trunk/README.txt Fri Jul 17 22:38:52 2009
@@ -6,7 +6,21 @@
structured text content from various documents using existing parser
libraries.
-Tika is a subproject of Apache Lucene <http://lucene.apache.org/>.
+Tika is a subproject of Apache Lucene <http://lucene.apache.org/>,
+a project of the Apache Software Foundation <http://www.apache.org/>.
+
+Getting Started
+===============
+
+Tika is based on Java 5 and uses the Maven 2 <http://maven.apache.org/>
+build system. To build Tika, use the following command in this directory:
+
+ mvn install
+
+The build consists of a number of components, including a standalone runnable
+jar that you can use to try out Tika features. You can run it like this:
+
+ java -jar tika-app/target/tika-app-0.5-SNAPSHOT.jar --help
License (see also LICENSE.txt)
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@@ -58,20 +72,6 @@
extracting text content and metadata from encrypted PDF files.
See http://www.bouncycastle.org/ for more details on Bouncy Castle.
-Building Tika
-=============
-
-You can build the Tika sources using the Maven 2 build system. Execute the
-following command in the Tika source directory to build the sources and
-to install the resulting jar artifact in your local Maven repository:
-
- mvn install
-
-You can also find the generated jar libraries in the ./target directory.
-
-See the Maven web site at http://maven.apache.org/ for more instructions
-and the latest Maven downloads.
-
Documentation
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