rtika: R Interface to 'Apache Tika'

Extract text or metadata from over a thousand file types. Get either plain text or structured XHTML content.

Installing

If you have not done so already, finish installing rtika by typing in the R console:

install_tika()

Getting Started

The tika_text function will extract plain text from many types of documents. It is a good place to start. Please read the Vignette also. Other main functions include tika_xml and tika_html that get a structured XHMTL rendition. The tika_json function gets metadata as `.json`, with XHMTL content.

The tika_json_text function gets metadata as `.json`, with plain text content.

tika is the main function the others above inherit from.

Use tika_fetch to download files with a file extension matching the Content-Type.