The startServer function attempts to concatenate the given classpath to the tika jar path with a colon. This is appropriate for Linux, but not for Windows where the correct character is the semicolon.
the problem lies (in part) on line 639 of tika.py:
if classpath:
classpath += ":" + tikaServerJar
should instead be:
if classpath:
if Windows:
classpath += ";" + tikaServerJar
else:
classpath += ":" + tikaServerJar
The second half of this issue is that including a naked semicolon causes CLI parsing errors, so the whole classpath variable must be wrapped in quotes.
chrismattmann
commented
3 years ago
The startServer function attempts to concatenate the given classpath to the tika jar path with a colon. This is appropriate for Linux, but not for Windows where the correct character is the semicolon.
the problem lies (in part) on line 639 of tika.py:
should instead be:
The second half of this issue is that including a naked semicolon causes CLI parsing errors, so the whole classpath variable must be wrapped in quotes.