How to extract content from. Pst file using apache tika? - pst

Question

How to parse.Pst file using apache tika
1.2?
How can I get entire body, attachment, and all Metadata of email while searching with ljcene?
for (File file : docs.listFiles()) {
Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
ContentHandler handler = new BodyContentHandler();
ParseContext context = new ParseContext();
Parser parser = new AutoDetectParser();
InputStream stream = new FileInputStream(file);
try {
parser.parse(stream, handler, metadata, context);
}
catch (TikaException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
catch (SAXException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

Answer 1

If you're stuck with 1.2, you might try the recommendation here
If you're able to upgrade, we added that as the RecursiveParserWrapper in 1.7 ...just upgrade to 1.12 if you can, or wait a week or two and 1.13 should be out.
Via commandline:
java -jar tika-app.jar -J -t -i input_directory -o output_directory
Or in code:
Parser p = new AutoDetectParser();
RecursiveParserWrapper wrapper = new RecursiveParserWrapper(p,
new BasicContentHandlerFactory(
BasicContentHandlerFactory.HANDLER_TYPE.XML, -1));
try (InputStream is = Files.newInputStream(file)) {
wrapper.parse(is, new DefaultHandler(), new Metadata(), context);
}
int i = 0;
for (Metadata metadata : wrapper.getMetadata()) {
for (String name : metadata.names()) {
for (String value : metadata.getValues(name)) {
System.out.println(i + " " + name +": " + value);
}
}
i++;
}