NAME

File::Extract - Extract Text From Arbitrary File Types

SYNOPSIS

use File::Extract;
my $e = File::Extract->new();
my $r = $e->extract($filename);

my $e = File::Extract->new(encodings => [...]);

my $class = "MyExtractor";
File::Extract->register($class);

DESCRIPTION

File::Extract is a framework to extract text data out of arbitrary file types, useful to collect data for indexing.

CLASS METHODS

register($class)

Registers a new text-extractor. The specified class needs to implement two functions:

mime_type(void)

Returns the MIME type that $class can extract files from.

extract($file)

Extracts the text from $file. Returns a File::Extract::Result object.

METHODS

encodings

List of encodings that you expect your files to be in. This is used to re-encode and normalize the contents of the file via Encode::Guess.

output_encoding

The final encoding that you the extracted test to be in. The default encoding is UTF8.

new(%args)

extract($file)

SEE ALSO

File::MMagic::XS

AUTHOR

Copyright 2005 Daisuke Maki <dmaki@cpan.org>. All rights reserved. Development funded by Brazil, Ltd. <http://b.razil.jp>