Unable to start Tika Server and get corrupt file when running tika-server.jar

[devipramita]

Hi, I get this error when parsing pdf using Tika

To overcome this issue, I've tried:

• setting os.environ['TIKA_SERVER_JAR'] to downloaded tika-server.jar
• setting os.environ['TIKA_PATH'] to folder of downloaded tika-server.jar
• checking on installed Java 8 (since I downloaded Tika 1.24. version) -> exist as shown below

seeing this solution https://github.com/chrismattmann/tika-python/issues/238#issuecomment-527315954 I tried to run java -jar <> but it gives me another error "Invalid or corrupt jarfile tika-server.jar"

Meanwhile, the downloaded tika-server.jar contains "tika-server.jar: HTML document, ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators"

Anyone has any solution ideas to this?

Thank you

[divyaksh-shukla]

Looks like you have the wrong installation of apache-tika, rather than the jar you only have a html page. As per the current download CDN on apache tika website there are only 2 versions available: 1.28.4 & 2.4.1. You can use the below commands to download apache tika on linux

# For 1.28.4
wget https://dlcdn.apache.org/tika/1.28.4/tika-server-1.28.4.jar

# For 2.4.1
wget https://dlcdn.apache.org/tika/2.4.1/tika-server-standard-2.4.1.jar

You can verify if you have done the correct file download by running the following command and comparing your output to the below output:

$ file tika-server-1.28.4.jar 
tika-server-1.28.4.jar: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract

[chrismattmann]

correct @divyaksh-shukla . Closing this one out.