de.aitools.aq.textextraction
Class TextExtractor

java.lang.Object
  de.aitools.aq.textextraction.TextExtractor

Direct Known Subclasses:

PsConverter, TikaConverter

public abstract class TextExtractor
extends java.lang.Object

An abstract class to extract plain text from arbitrary documents. Derived classes have to implement extract(File, File).

Version:

$Id: TextExtractor.java,v 1.1 2011/04/16 02:18:05 trenkman Exp $

Author:

martin.trenkmann@uni-weimar.de

Constructor Summary

TextExtractor()

Method Summary

java.io.File	extract(java.io.File inputFile) Extracts plain text from the given inputFile.
abstract void	extract(java.io.File inputFile, java.io.File outputFile) Extracts plain text from the given inputFile.
abstract java.util.Set<org.apache.tika.mime.MediaType>	getSupportedMediaTypes() Returns a the MIME type supported by this converter.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

TextExtractor

public TextExtractor()

Method Detail

getSupportedMediaTypes

public abstract java.util.Set<org.apache.tika.mime.MediaType> getSupportedMediaTypes()

Returns a the MIME type supported by this converter.

Returns:

The supported MIME type.

extract

public abstract void extract(java.io.File inputFile,
                             java.io.File outputFile)
                      throws TextExtractorException

Extracts plain text from the given inputFile. The retrieved content will be stored in outputFile.

Parameters:

inputFile - The input file to extract plain text from

outputFile - The path of the plain text file to be created

Throws:

TextExtractorException

extract

public java.io.File extract(java.io.File inputFile)
                     throws TextExtractorException

Extracts plain text from the given inputFile. The retrieved content will be stored in the same directory as the input file.

Parameters:

inputFile - The input file to extract plain text from

Returns:

The path of the created plain text file

Throws:

TextExtractorException