Apache Tika is a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and structured text content from various documents using existing parser libraries. You can find the latest release on the download page. See the Getting Started guide for instructions on how to start using Tika.
Katta is a scalable, failure tolerant, distributed, data storage for real time access.
Katta serves large, replicated, indices as shards to serve high loads and very large data sets. These indices can be of different type. Currently implementations are available for Lucene and Hadoop mapfiles.
* Makes serving large or high load indices easy
* Serves very large Lucene or Hadoop Mapfile indices as index shards on many servers
* Replicate shards on different servers for performance and fault-tolerance
* Supports pluggable network topologies
* Master fail-over
* Fast, lightweight, easy to integrate
* Plays well with Hadoop clusters
* Apache Version 2 License
PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents. This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents. PDFBox also includes several command line utilities.
Features
* PDF to text extraction
* Merge PDF Documents
* PDF Document Encryption/Decryption
* Lucene Search Engine Integration
* Fill in form data FDF and XFDF
* Create a PDF from a text file
* Create images from PDF pages
* Print a PDF
Compass is a first class open source Java Search Engine Framework, enabling the power of Search Engine semantics to your application stack decoratively. Built on top of the amazing Lucene Search Engine, Compass integrates seamlessly to popular development frameworks like Hibernate and Spring. It provides search capability to your application data model and synchronizes changes with the datasource. With Compass: write less code, find data quicker.