NAME

Solstice::Service::FileContentExtractor - Extract text content from a variety of file types.

SYNOPSIS

  use Solstice::Service::FileContentExtractor;

  my $service = Solstice::Service::FileContentExtractor->new();
 
  # Adding an extractor for a specific file type:
  $service->addExtractor({
      type     => 'text/plain',
      function => \&extract_text_function, 
  });
 
  my $file = Solstice::Resource::File::BlackBox();
  
  # Extracting content from a file
  my $text = $service->extract($file);

DESCRIPTION

Export

None by default.

Methods

new()

addExtractor(\$params)

Add a content extractor function, The passed %params is { type => 'content type', function => a reference to a function, }

extract($file)

Private Methods

_init()

Private Functions

AUTHOR

Educational Technology Development Group <catalyst@u.washington.edu>

VERSION

$Revision: 597 $

SEE ALSO

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 1998-2007 Office of Learning Technologies, University of Washington

Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 1.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl1.php

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.