NAME¶
libextractor - meta-information extraction library 1.0.0
SYNOPSIS¶
#include <extractor.h>
const char *EXTRACTOR_metatype_to_string (enum EXTRACTOR_MetaType
type );
const char *EXTRACTOR_metatype_to_description (enum EXTRACTOR_MetaType
type);
enum EXTRACTOR_MetaTypeEXTRACTOR_metatype_get_max (void);
struct EXTRACTOR_PluginList *EXTRACTOR_plugin_add_defaults (enum
EXTRACTOR_Options flags);
struct EXTRACTOR_PluginList *EXTRACTOR_plugin_add (struct
EXTRACTOR_PluginList * prev, const char *library,
const char * options, enum EXTRACTOR_Options
flags);
struct EXTRACTOR_PluginList *EXTRACTOR_plugin_add_last (struct
EXTRACTOR_PluginList * prev, const char *library,
const char * options, enum EXTRACTOR_Options
flags);
struct EXTRACTOR_PluginList *EXTRACTOR_plugin_add_config (struct
EXTRACTOR_PluginList * prev, const char *config,
enum EXTRACTOR_Options flags); struct
EXTRACTOR_PluginList *EXTRACTOR_plugin_remove (struct EXTRACTOR_PluginList
* prev, const char *library);
void EXTRACTOR_plugin_remove_all (struct EXTRACTOR_PluginList
*plugins );
void EXTRACTOR_extract (struct EXTRACTOR_PluginList *plugins,
const char * filename, const void *data, size_t
size, EXTRACTOR_MetaDataProcessor proc, void
* proc_cls);
int EXTRACTOR_meta_data_prin t(void *handle, const char
*plugin_name, enum EXTRACTOR_MetaType type, enum
EXTRACTOR_MetaFormat format, const char
*data_mime_type , const char *data, size_t
data_len );
EXTRACTOR_VERSION
DESCRIPTION¶
GNU libextractor is a simple library for keyword extraction. libextractor does
not support all formats but supports a simple plugging mechanism such that you
can quickly add extractors for additional formats, even without recompiling
libextractor. libextractor typically ships with dozens of plugins that can be
used to obtain meta data from common file-types. If you want to write your own
plugin for some filetype, all you need to do is write a little library that
implements a single method with this signature:
void EXTRACTOR_XXX_extract_method (struct EXTRACTOR_ExtractContext
*ec );
ec contains function pointers for reading, seeking, getting the overall
file size and returning meta data. There is also a field with options for the
plugin. New plugins will be automatically located and used once they are
installed in the respective directory (typically something like
/usr/lib/libextractor/).
The application
extract gives an example how to use libextractor.
The basic use of libextractor is to load the plugins (for example with
EXTRACTOR_plugin_add_defaults), then to extract the keyword list using
EXTRACTOR_extract, and finally unloading the plugins (with
EXTRACTOR_plugin_remove_all).
Textual meta data obtained from libextractor is supposed to be UTF-8 encoded if
the text encoding is known. Plugins are supposed to convert meta-data to UTF-8
if necessary. The
EXTRACTOR_meta_data_print function converts the UTF-8
keywords to the character set from the current locale before printing them.
SEE ALSO¶
extract(1)
LEGAL NOTICE¶
libextractor is released under the GPL and a GNU package (
http://www.gnu.org/).
BUGS¶
A couple of file-formats (on the order of 10^3) are not recognized...
AUTHORS¶
extract was originally written by Christian Grothoff
<christian@grothoff.org> and Vidyut Samanta <vids@cs.ucla.edu>.
Use <libextractor@gnu.org> to contact the current maintainer(s).
AVAILABILITY¶
You can obtain the original author's latest version from
http://www.gnu.org/software/libextractor/.
