What is extractable from an image using the attachment plugin?

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Hi,

I am trying to work out the limits of what is possible with the attachment
plugin for elasticsearch. Working with document based attachments is
absolutely fine and I have no problem with that. However, I would like to
know what exactly can I extract from image attachments? Other than image
metadata (e.g. EXIF) can I expect the plugin to perform a sort of OCR
function, and recognise when an image contains text and then make that text
searchable?

I've tried it locally, and it didn't work, but I wanted to ask other users
in case they've successfully been able to get this to work, and I'm doing
something wrong.

Thanks!

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Hey,

the attachment plugin does not use any OCR recognition. It uses Apache Tika
for content extraction. See http://tika.apache.org/

--Alex

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Kashif Nasir kashif.nasir@gmail.comwrote:

Hi,

I am trying to work out the limits of what is possible with the attachment
plugin for elasticsearch. Working with document based attachments is
absolutely fine and I have no problem with that. However, I would like to
know what exactly can I extract from image attachments? Other than image
metadata (e.g. EXIF) can I expect the plugin to perform a sort of OCR
function, and recognise when an image contains text and then make that text
searchable?

I've tried it locally, and it didn't work, but I wanted to ask other users
in case they've successfully been able to get this to work, and I'm doing
something wrong.

Thanks!

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Relative to this discussion: Adding OCR support · Issue #10 · elastic/elasticsearch-mapper-attachments · GitHub

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Le 26 juil. 2013 à 08:05, Alexander Reelsen alr@spinscale.de a écrit :

Hey,

the attachment plugin does not use any OCR recognition. It uses Apache Tika for content extraction. See http://tika.apache.org/

--Alex

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Kashif Nasir kashif.nasir@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to work out the limits of what is possible with the attachment plugin for elasticsearch. Working with document based attachments is absolutely fine and I have no problem with that. However, I would like to know what exactly can I extract from image attachments? Other than image metadata (e.g. EXIF) can I expect the plugin to perform a sort of OCR function, and recognise when an image contains text and then make that text searchable?

I've tried it locally, and it didn't work, but I wanted to ask other users in case they've successfully been able to get this to work, and I'm doing something wrong.

Thanks!

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