# What is extractable from an image using the attachment plugin?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-extractable-from-an-image-using-the-attachment-plugin/12941
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 25, 2013, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-extractable-from-an-image-using-the-attachment-plugin/12941 "2013-07-25T15:46:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Kash](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kash)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2013, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-extractable-from-an-image-using-the-attachment-plugin/12941/1 "2013-07-25T15:46:15Z")
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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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2013, 6:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-extractable-from-an-image-using-the-attachment-plugin/12941/2 "2013-07-26T06:05:30Z")
Hey,
the attachment plugin does not use any OCR recognition. It uses Apache Tika
for content extraction. See [http://tika.apache.org/](http://tika.apache.org/)
--Alex
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Kashif Nasir [kashif.nasir@gmail.com](mailto: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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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2013, 6:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-extractable-from-an-image-using-the-attachment-plugin/12941/3 "2013-07-26T06:25:37Z")
Relative to this discussion: [Adding OCR support · Issue #10 · elastic/elasticsearch-mapper-attachments · GitHub](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-mapper-attachments/issues/10)
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Le 26 juil. 2013 à 08:05, Alexander Reelsen [alr@spinscale.de](mailto: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/](http://tika.apache.org/)
--Alex
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Kashif Nasir [kashif.nasir@gmail.com](mailto: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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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-is-extractable-from-an-image-using-the-attachment-plugin/12941/4 "2017-07-06T02:24:25Z")