# File parsers

File parsers extract text from various file types and provide it as a `Reader` to the `FullTextBridge` for use during search indexing. Plain text formats can use the default `fileParser` bean, but any specialized format, such as PDF or RTF requires special libraries and special registration.

## Configuration

Currently, configuration takes places solely in service-ome.api.Search.xml. Eventually, it should be able to replace file parsers at configuration or even runtime.

## Available parsers

File type | Parser
application/pdf | https://pdfbox.apache.org
text/xml | (internal)
text/plain | (internal)
text/csv | (internal)

The base class for File parsers are FileParser.java

See also

OMERO search