# DWG - ElasticSearch - Tika

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dwg-elasticsearch-tika/375383
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** ingest-pipeline
**Created:** [March 4, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dwg-elasticsearch-tika/375383 "2025-03-04T15:42:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![uniconfortced](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3e96dc/32.png) [@uniconfortced](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/uniconfortced)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dwg-elasticsearch-tika/375383/1 "2025-03-04T15:42:12Z")

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I have a simple question. I read that Tika can extract information from CAD file as DWG format. There is a mode to improve this in Elastic?  
I put into modules\ingest-attachment folder tika-parser-cad-module-2.9.2.jar  
but it don't work. I suppose because elastic not permits to index this type of file. Do you have suggestion?  
Thanks for your help!

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dwg-elasticsearch-tika/375383/2 "2025-03-04T15:55:47Z")

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You can try [FSCrawler](https://fscrawler.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html) which [supports those files](https://fscrawler.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/formats.html).

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### Author: ![uniconfortced](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3e96dc/32.png) [@uniconfortced](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/uniconfortced)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2025, 7:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dwg-elasticsearch-tika/375383/3 "2025-03-06T07:53:44Z")

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Thank you for your suggest. I hope configure it, because I am newer of this application. In this moment My Document Software use REST command to put document in Elastic:  
PUT //_doc/_\<stream|signed|preview|filedata\>\_?pipeline=attachment

And this parameter is fix.  
Image i must sobstitute Tika with FSCrawler

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2025, 8:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dwg-elasticsearch-tika/375383/4 "2025-03-06T08:46:30Z")

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fscrawler is a standalone service or application.  
But you can use its Rest service to upload your files.

See

> **[Starting with a REST gateway — FSCrawler 2.10-SNAPSHOT documentation](https://fscrawler.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/rest.html)**

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### Author: ![uniconfortced](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3e96dc/32.png) [@uniconfortced](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/uniconfortced)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2025, 12:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dwg-elasticsearch-tika/375383/5 "2025-03-06T12:06:47Z")

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I understand, But parameter from my software not are modifiable and the REST command to put Attachment points to elastic:9200.

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2025, 9:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dwg-elasticsearch-tika/375383/6 "2025-03-06T21:34:25Z")

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So there's no workaround.
