Indexing your office documents with Elastic stack and FSCrawler

Elastic London Revival
London 🇬🇧UK

May. 2022

David Pilato

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Abstract

You have plenty of Open Office, Microsoft Office, PDF, images… documents and you may want to be able to search for their metadata and content. How can you do that?

In this talk, David will explain how Apache Tika can be used for that and how to combine this fantastic library with Elastic Stack:

Elasticsearch ingest-attachment plugin

FSCrawler

Workplace Search connector for FSCrawler to have a ready to use and powerful user interface for your documents.

Resources

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Demo: FSCrawler

This repository contains the code for the FSCrawler demo.

Documentation: FSCrawler

The official FSCrawler documentation

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Who am I?

Developer | Evangelist at elastic and creator of the Elastic French User Group . Frequent speaker about all things Elastic, in conferences, for User Groups and in companies with BBL talks . In my free time, I enjoy coding and deejaying as DJ Elky , just for fun. Living with my children in Cergy, France.

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I discovered Elasticsearch project in 2011. After contributed to the project and created open source plugins for it, David joined elastic the company in 2013 where he is Developer and Evangelist. He also created and still actively managing the French spoken language User Group. At elastic, he mainly worked on Elasticsearch source code, specifically on open-source plugins. In his free time, he likes talking about elasticsearch in conferences or in companies (Brown Bag Lunches AKA BBLs ). He is also author of FSCrawler project which helps to index your pdf, open office, whatever documents in elasticsearch using Apache Tika behind the scene.

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