# Indexing Images
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-images/15929
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 20, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-images/15929 "2014-02-20T16:38:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@IronMike](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/IronMike)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-images/15929/1 "2014-02-20T16:38:31Z")
I am a bit confused about this topic, I would like to index images
(png,jpegs, gifs...), my understanding is that I need to extract and index
text portions from images, I don't really care for the meta data. So, I
looked online and decided to use apache Tika which I also use to extract
text and index pdfs (pdfs work fine).
- How do I get the text part of images? All I am able to extract is
metadata which I don't need.
- Ideally I want to say if this image has no text to extract, then
discard/ignore? Can you please clarify this topic a bit more and provide
any samples if available? Additionaly, I don't want to store the 64 based
encoded document.
PutMappingResponse putMappingResponse = new PutMappingRequestBuilder(
```
client.admin().indices() ).setIndices(
```
INDEX\_NAME).setType(INDEX\_TYPE).setSource(
XContentFactory.jsonBuilder
().startObject()
```
.startObject(INDEX_TYPE)
.startObject("_source").field(
```
"enabled","no").endObject() //I believe this line will not store the base
64 whole \_source, below I store the text portion of file only "file"
```
.startObject("properties")
.startObject("file")
.field( "term_vector",
```
"with\_positions\_offsets" )
```
.field( "store", "no" )
.field( "type", "attachment" )
.field("fields")
.startObject()
.startObject("file")
.field("store", "yes")
.endObject()
.endObject()
.endObject()
.endObject()
.endObject()
.endObject()
).execute().actionGet();
public static void testImage(File file) throws IOException,
```
SAXException,TikaException {
```
Tika tika = new Tika();
InputStream inputStream = new BufferedInputStream( new
```
FileInputStream(file));
Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
ContentHandler handler = new DefaultHandler();
Parser parser = new JpegParser();
ParseContext context = new ParseContext();
String mimeType = tika.detect(inputStream);
```
metadata.set(Metadata.CONTENT_TYPE, mimeType);
```
parser.parse(inputStream,handler,metadata,context);
for(int i = 0; i \
### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-images/15929/2 "2014-02-20T17:37:14Z")
There is no OCR plugin. I tried to find something but did not really find anything useful: [https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-mapper-attachments/issues/10](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-mapper-attachments/issues/10)
To be honest, I think it was a false good idea. I mean that doing OCR inside elasticsearch nodes does not make sense to me.
This is something which should be done outside elasticsearch, for example in logstash if possible.
My 2 cents
--
David Pilato | Technical Advocate | [Elasticsearch.com](http://Elasticsearch.com)
@dadoonet | @elasticsearchfr
Le 20 février 2014 à 17:39:05, ZenMaster80 ([sabdalla80@gmail.com](mailto:sabdalla80@gmail.com)) a écrit:
I am a bit confused about this topic, I would like to index images (png,jpegs, gifs...), my understanding is that I need to extract and index text portions from images, I don't really care for the meta data. So, I looked online and decided to use apache Tika which I also use to extract text and index pdfs (pdfs work fine).
- How do I get the text part of images? All I am able to extract is metadata which I don't need.
- Ideally I want to say if this image has no text to extract, then discard/ignore? Can you please clarify this topic a bit more and provide any samples if available? Additionaly, I don't want to store the 64 based encoded document.
PutMappingResponse putMappingResponse = new PutMappingRequestBuilder(
for(int i = 0; i \
### Author:  [@IronMike](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/IronMike)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-images/15929/3 "2014-02-20T17:45:10Z")
Thanks David. I agree that OCR and maybe any kind of text extraction should
be done pre-Elastic Search indexing. But, I am just wondering if apache
tika supports this, or if anyone has experience with using a certain tool.
I do plan to do extract before indexing.
On Thursday, February 20, 2014 11:38:31 AM UTC-5, ZenMaster80 wrote:
> I am a bit confused about this topic, I would like to index images
> (png,jpegs, gifs...), my understanding is that I need to extract and index
> text portions from images, I don't really care for the meta data. So, I
> looked online and decided to use apache Tika which I also use to extract
> text and index pdfs (pdfs work fine).
>
> - How do I get the text part of images? All I am able to extract is
> metadata which I don't need.
> - Ideally I want to say if this image has no text to extract, then
> discard/ignore? Can you please clarify this topic a bit more and provide
> any samples if available? Additionaly, I don't want to store the 64 based
> encoded document.
>
> PutMappingResponse putMappingResponse = new PutMappingRequestBuilder(
>
> ```
> client.admin().indices() ).setIndices(
>
> ```
>
> INDEX\_NAME).setType(INDEX\_TYPE).setSource(
> XContentFactory.jsonBuilder
> ().startObject()
>
> ```
> .startObject(INDEX_TYPE)
>
> .startObject("_source").field(
>
> ```
>
> "enabled","no").endObject() //I believe this line will not store the
> base 64 whole \_source, below I store the text portion of file only "file"
>
> ```
> .startObject("properties")
>
> .startObject("file")
>
> .field( "term_vector",
>
> ```
>
> "with\_positions\_offsets" )
>
> ```
> .field( "store", "no" )
>
> .field( "type", "attachment" )
>
> .field("fields")
>
> .startObject()
>
> .startObject("file")
>
> .field("store", "yes")
>
> .endObject()
>
> .endObject()
>
> .endObject()
>
> .endObject()
>
> .endObject()
>
> .endObject()
>
> ).execute().actionGet();
>
> public static void testImage(File file) throws IOException,
>
> ```
>
> SAXException,TikaException {
>
> ```
> Tika tika = new Tika();
>
> InputStream inputStream = new BufferedInputStream( new
>
> ```
>
> FileInputStream(file));
>
> Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
>
> ContentHandler handler = new DefaultHandler();
>
> Parser parser = new JpegParser();
>
> ParseContext context = new ParseContext();
>
> String mimeType = tika.detect(inputStream);
>
> ```
> metadata.set(Metadata.CONTENT_TYPE, mimeType);
>
> ```
>
> parser.parse(inputStream,handler,metadata,context);
>
> for(int i = 0; i \ care for this
>
> ```
> String name = metadata.names()[i];
> System.out.println(name + " : " + metadata.get(name));
>
> }
>
> ```
>
> }
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-images/15929/4 "2017-07-06T01:48:35Z")