Hi, I'm new to Solr and trying to get it to index PDFs. Having trouble getting started. Following examples in ExtractingRequestHandler wiki <http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ExtractingRequestHandler>.
Got Solr running and it indexes html, xml & txt files just fine...but when I try to feed it a .pdf it barfs back a "Error 500 Could not initialize class org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage" error: $ curl "http://localhost:8983/solr/update/extract?literal.id=doc1&commit=true"; -F "myfile=@index.pdf" <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"/> <title>Error 500 Could not initialize class org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage ... I thought maybe it's because Tika isn't installed/included so I tried downloading and installing Tika separately...but even the Tika install fails with: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Test set: org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParserTest ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tests run: 5, Failures: 0, Errors: 5, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.63 sec <<< FAILURE! testVarious(org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParserTest) Time elapsed: 0.165 sec <<< ERROR! java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage I don't know Java (but hopefully won't need to in order to get basic indexing up and running as ultimate goal is to query this via Sunspot from a Rails app) so go easy on me. Let me know if you want/need more of the error dump. Any help would be greatly appreciated! -Mike
