+1, I talked to Tyler a little bit ago and told him to grep for exiftool in Tika :) he will scope.
-----Original Message----- From: Nick Burch <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, June 2, 2014 8:36 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [jira] [Commented] (TIKA-93) OCR support >On Mon, 2 Jun 2014, Tyler Palsulich wrote: >> How do we know when Tesseract is installed? There isn't an easy, >> cross-platform Java method to check if a given program is installed. >> Maybe, we make the user specify the install location in some config >> file? Then, don't have to worry about Tesseract being on the path or >> not. > >The same way that Ray's stuff checks to see if exiftool is installed or >not. I'd suggest you crib of all the work he has already done on calling >out to native programs from Tika! > >Nick
