Tika in Python Azure Function

Question

I'm trying to create a function on Azure Function Apps that is given back a PDF and uses the python tika library to parse it. This setup works fine locally, and I have the python function set up in Azure as well, however I cannot figure out how to include Java in the environment?

At the moment, when I try to run the code on the server I get the error message

Unable to run java; is it installed? Failed to receive startup confirmation from startServer.

Answer 1

So this isnt possible at this time. To solve it, I abstracted out the tika code into a Java Function app and used that instead.