extractous 0.1.3

Extractous provides a fast and efficient way to extract content from all kind of file formats including PDF, Word, Excel CSV, Email etc... Internally it uses a natively compiled Apache Tika for formats are not supported natively by Rust

Extractous

Extractous is a Rust crate that provides a unified approach for detecting and extracting metadata and text content from various documents types such as PDF, Word, HTML, and many other formats.

Features

High-level Rust API for extracting text and metadata content for many file formats.
Strives to be efficient and fast.
Internally it calls the Apache Tika for any file format that is not natively supported in the Rust core.
Comprehensive documentation and examples to help you get started quickly.

Installation

To use extractous in your Rust project, add the following line to your Cargo.toml file:

[dependencies]
extractous = "0.1.1"

Supported file formats

File Format	Native Rust	Through Tika
pdf	-	✅
csv	✅	-

Building

GraalVm is required to build tika_native. We recommend using sdkman
To be able to use awt on macOS, please use Bellsoft Liberica NIK java 22
sdk install java 24.0.1.r22-nik
We use gradle to perform the build. Gradle wrapper is included in the project, no need to install gradle.
Make sure JAVA_HOME is pointing to the graalvm jdk and not any other jdk in your environment. Try java --version you should see something like:

openjdk 22.0.1 2024-04-16
OpenJDK Runtime Environment Liberica-NIK-24.0.1-1 (build 22.0.1+10)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Liberica-NIK-24.0.1-1 (build 22.0.1+10, mixed mode, sharing)