Hide informational messages when using Apache Tika command-line

Asked Nov 10 '15 at 11:59

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I'm using Apache Tika from within Python as follows, to extract images/attachments from PDF files.

subprocess.call(["java", "-jar", "./tika-app-1.10.jar","--extract"+data_dir])

This leads to messages being shown for each extracted attachment, such as "Extracting 'image1.jpg' (image/jpeg) to ./image1.jpg". Is there a way I can hide these types of messages from the output?

edited Nov 10 '15 at 13:11

Gagravarr

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capture and discard stdout from your process? – Gagravarr Nov 10 '15 at 13:10
Good suggestion, I'm looking into `subprocess.Popen` to do just that. How do I discard the output though? – Hamman Samuel Nov 11 '15 at 22:06
I found the solution from [this post](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7082623/suppress-output-from-subprocess-popen), using `Popen` instead of `call` – Hamman Samuel Nov 11 '15 at 22:15

Hide informational messages when using Apache Tika command-line

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