= Distributed James Server &mdash; tika.properties
:navtitle: tika.properties

When using OpenSearch, you can configure an external Tika server for extracting and indexing text from attachments.
Thus you can significantly improve user experience upon text searches.

Note: You can launch a tika server using this command line:

....
docker run --name tika linagora/docker-tikaserver:1.24
....

Here are the different properties:

.tika.properties content
|===
| Property name | explanation

| tika.enabled
| Should Tika text extractor be used?
If true, the TikaTextExtractor will be used behind a cache.
If false, the DefaultTextExtractor will be used (naive implementation only supporting text).
Defaults to false.

| tika.host
| IP or domain name of your Tika server. The default value is 127.0.0.1

| tika.port
| Port of your tika server. The default value is 9998

| tika.timeoutInMillis
| Timeout when issuing request to the tika server. The default value is 3 seconds.

| tika.cache.eviction.period
| A cache is used to avoid, when possible, query Tika multiple time for the same attachments.
This entry determines how long after the last read an entry vanishes.
Please note that units are supported (ms - millisecond, s - second, m - minute, h - hour, d - day). Default unit is seconds.
Default value is *1 day*

| tika.cache.enabled
| Should the cache be used? False by default

| tika.cache.weight.max
| Maximum weight of the cache.
A value of *0* disables the cache
Please note that units are supported (K for KB, M for MB, G for GB). Defaults is no units, so in bytes.
Default value is *100 MB*.

| tika.contentType.blacklist
| Blacklist of content type is known-to-be-failing with Tika. Specify the list with comma separator.
|===
