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Command Line Interface

Indexify has two CLIs, indexify-extractor for running and testing the Extractors. And a CLI to run the server. If you want to learn about the CLI interface of the server, please read (Operating Indexify)[https://docs.getindexify.ai/configuration/]

Indexify Extractor CLI

Download the indexify-extractor cli by - 

pip install indexify-extractor

List Available Extractors

indexify-extractor list
Extractor List Photo

Download Extractors

The extractors has to be downloaded before they can be used locally or in production. For ex, you can download the PDF extractor like this - 

indexify-extractor download tensorlake/pdf-extractor

Test Extractors Locally

You can test extractors locally without running them with the server in a production setting. Let's say we want to test the PDF extractor 

indexify-extractor run-local pdf-extractor.pdf_extractor:PDFExtractor --file /path/to/pdf
Options
  • --file to pass in a file to the extractor
  • --text to pass in text to the extractor

Join the Extractor to the Server

You can join the extractor to the server to start extracting data ingested by the server 

indexify-extractor join-server

Options
  • --coordinator-addr - Address of the coordinator. Default: localhost:8950
  • --ingestion-addr - Address of the ingestion server. Default: localhost:8900
  • --listen-port - The port on which the extractor listens of on-demand extraction
  • --advertise-addr - The address that is advertized to the ingestion server. This should be reachable by the server for embedding lookups to work if this is an embedding extractor.
  • --workers - Number of workers that the extractor spawns

These configurations are printed in log when the extractor starts up