This script takes rich files from a folder e.g. word, pdf, etc. and extracts the text from them using Apache Tika.
The resulting text is saved as .json files for each original file.
1 - Obtain a new Ubuntu server [e.g. c9.io (free), VirtualBox, AWS, Godaddy cloud, etc.]
2 - Copy the installer script to the server:
$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jmmnn/text_extractor/master/server_install.py
3 - Run the istaller, click yes when necessary:
$ python3 server_install.py #in Ubuntu 14 you can do just python, but
in Ubuntu 16 only python3 is installed by default.
At this point you have all you need!
If you want to test it:
4 - Change directory to text_extractor:
$ cd text_extractor
5 - Then run:
$ python text_extract.py
To run, just place your files in the "original_files" folder and run the command above again. (You can do this by sftp to your server, or getting the files using wget)