Use tika with python, runtimeerror: unable to start tika server

Question

I am trying to use the tika package to Parse files. Tika is successfully installed, tika-server-1.18.jar runned with Code in cmd Java -jar tika-server-1.1

Answer 1

After you import Tika you need to initialize the Java Server

import tika
tika.initVM()
from tika import parser
parsed = parser.from_file('') //file name should be here