Hi Avi,
Just to clarify, are you asking for some way to determine whether a given file
(format) will never return any text (other than metadata)?
Thanks,
-- Ken
On Aug 7, 2014, at 11:28pm, Avi Hayun <avrah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am crawling my site and am using Tika for binary content parsing.
>
> But, how can I know if a certain url contains binary content or plain text ?
>
> I can get the contentType.
>
>
> So for now I am using:
> if (typeStr.contains("image") || typeStr.contains("audio") ||
> typeStr.contains("video") || typeStr.contains("application")) {
> return true;
> }
>
>
> Which is dumb code.
>
> I will replace the plain strings with Tika's MediaType objects but still I
> need better code
>
> Does anyone have any better idea ?
>
>
>
>
> Thank you for your help,
> Avi
