[ANNOUNCE] Apache Tika 0.8 released

[Chris Mattmann <ma...@apache.org>]

(...apologies for the cross posting...)

The Apache Tika project is pleased to announce the release of Apache Tika
0.8 The release contents have been pushed out to the main Apache release
site and to the Maven Central sync, so the releases should be available as
soon as the mirrors get the syncs.

Apache Tika is a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and
structured text content from various documents using existing parser
libraries.

Apache Tika 0.8 contains a number of improvements and bug fixes. Details can
be found in the changes file:

http://www.apache.org/dist/tika/CHANGES-0.8.txt

Apache Tika is available in source form from the following download page:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/tika/apache-tika-0.8-src.zip

Apache Tika is also available in binar
y form or for use using Maven 2 from
the Central Maven Repository:

http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/tika/

In the initial 48 hours, the release may not be available on all mirrors.
When downloading from a mirror site, please remember to verify the downloads
using signatures found on the Apache site:

http://www.apache.org/dist/tika/KEYS-0.8.txt

For more information on Apache Tika, visit the project home page:

http://tika.apache.org/

-- Chris Mattmann (on behalf of the Apache Tika community)

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Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
Senior Computer Scientist
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246
Email: chris.a.mattmann@nasa.gov
WWW:   http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
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