Indexing Word Documents and PDFs with Sphinx

Question

I have a website where users upload documents in .doc and .pdf format. I am using Sphinx to conduct full text searches on my SQL database (MySQL). What is the best way to index these file formats with Sphinx?

Answer 1

Has anyone used Tika to index other types of documents, much like the SOLR plugin? Apache Tika

Some links:

1. PDF2TEXT is in poppler or poppler-utils on Linux
2. ANTIWORD -- seems to be for old .doc, not newer .docx