LlamaIndex Legacy Office Reader

Overview

The Legacy Office Reader allows loading data from legacy Office documents (like Word 97 .doc files) using Apache Tika. It runs the Tika server locally to avoid remote server calls.

Installation

You can install the Legacy Office Reader via pip:

pip install llama-index-readers-legacy-office

Usage

Basic Usage

from llama_index.readers.legacy_office import LegacyOfficeReader

# Initialize LegacyOfficeReader
reader = LegacyOfficeReader(
    tika_server_jar_path="path/to/tika-server.jar",  # Optional: Path to Tika server JAR
)

# Load data from a legacy Office document
documents = reader.load_data(
    file="path/to/document.doc",  # Path to the legacy Office document
)

Using with SimpleDirectoryReader

from llama_index.core import SimpleDirectoryReader
from llama_index.readers.legacy_office import LegacyOfficeReader

reader = SimpleDirectoryReader(
    input_dir="path/to/directory/",
    file_extractor={".doc": LegacyOfficeReader()},
)
documents = reader.load_data()

Features

• Parses legacy Office documents (.doc) using Apache Tika
• Optionally (default) runs Tika server locally to avoid remote server calls/dependencies
• Extracts both content and metadata from documents
• Supports batch processing of multiple documents
• Seamless integration with SimpleDirectoryReader

Requirements

• Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 11 or higher (required for Apache Tika 3.x)
• Python 3.8 or higher

Notes

• The first time you use the reader, it will download the Tika server JAR file if not provided
• The Tika server will run locally on port 9998
• All document metadata is preserved in the Document objects
• Make sure you have Java 11+ installed and available in your system PATH
• The reader uses Apache Tika 3.x

Credits

This reader is built on top of:

• Apache Tika - Content analysis toolkit
• tika-python - Python bindings for Apache Tika