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

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>