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/ File::Extractor

NAME

File::Extractor - Extract meta-data from arbitrary files

SYNOPSIS

    use File::Extractor;

    my $extractor = File::Extractor->loadDefaultLibraries;
    my %keywords  = $extractor->getKeywords($fh);

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a perl interface to libextractor.

GNU libextractor provides developers of file-sharing networks, file managers, and WWW-indexing bots with a universal library to obtain meta-data about files.

Currently, libextractor supports the following formats: HTML, PDF, PS, OLE2 (DOC, XLS, PPT), OpenOffice (sxw), StarOffice (sdw), DVI, MAN, MP3 (ID3v1 and ID3v2), OGG, WAV, EXIV2, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, DEB, RPM, TAR(.GZ), ZIP, ELF, REAL, RIFF (AVI), MPEG, QT and ASF.

Also, various additional MIME types are detected. It can also be used to compute hash functions (SHA-1, MD5, ripemd160).

http://www.gnunet.org/libextractor/

METHODS

getDefaultLibraries

  my @default_libraries = File::Extractor->getDefaultLibraries;

Return a list of strings which are the names of the default extractor libraries.

loadDefaultLibraries

  my $extractor = File::Extractor->loadDefaultLibraries;

Load the default set of libraries. Returns a File::Extractor instance.

loadConfigLibraries

  my $extractor = File::Extractor->loadConfigLibraries($config);
  my $new_extractor = $extractor->loadConfigLibraries($config);

Load multiple libraries as specified by the user. $config is a string given by the user that defines which libraries should be loaded. Has the format "[[-]LIBRARYNAME[(options)][:[-]LIBRARYNAME[(options)]]]*".. For example libextractor_mp3.so:libextractor_ogg.so loads the mp3 and the ogg library. The '-' before the LIBRARYNAME indicates that the library should be added to the end of the library list (addLibraryLast).

addLibrary

  my $extractor = File::Extractor->addLibrary($library);
  my $new_extractor = $extractor->addLibrary($library);

Add a library for keyword extraction. $library is the name of the library to be loaded.

addLibraryLast

  my $extractor = File::Extractor->addLibraryLast($library);
  my $new_extractor = $extractor->addLibraryLast($library);

Add a library for keyword extraction at the end of the list. $library is the name of the library to be loaded.

removeLibrary

  $extractor->removeLibrary($library);

Remove a library for keyword extraction. $library is the name of the library to be removed.

getKeywords

  my %keywords = $extractor->getKeywords($fh);
  my %keywords = $extractor->getKeywords($data);

Extract keywords from an opened filehandle ($fh) or from a buffer in memory ($data). Returns a hash with all the extracted keywords. The hash keys represent the keywords type, the hash values are the actual keywords.

AUTHOR

Florian Ragwitz, <rafl at debian.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-file-extractor at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=File-Extractor. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc File::Extractor

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2007-2009 Florian Ragwitz, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.