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Apache Tika is a project of the Apache Software Foundation that detects and extracts metadata and text from over a thousand different file types.

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Apache Tika is a project of the Apache Software Foundation that detects and extracts metadata and text from over a thousand different file types.

Platform availability

Available on 3 of 6 install platforms

Also on Docker Hub and GitHub

Health score

75/100 Good

Maintained
100last commit 7 days ago
Popular
724,081 GitHub stars
Easy to install
302 install platforms, Docker image
Light to run
No data

Based on 3 of 4 factors.

How is this calculated?

A 0-100 score computed nightly from four factors: maintained (40%: recent commits and steady activity), popular (25%: GitHub stars, log scale), easy to install (20%: platforms, install notes, setup guides, Docker image) and light to run (15%: minimum RAM, ARM support). Factors without data are left out and the rest are rescaled.

Availability: platform listings confirmed today, links checked 7 days ago

GitHub stars
4,081
Open issues
64
Last commit
2026-09-28
License
Apache-2.0
Activity
steady

Checked 7 days ago - source: GitHub (apache/tika)

Resources & Compatibility

ARM (e.g. Raspberry Pi) is supported.

Checked 7 days ago - source: Docker Hub image tags and published docs

First-install notes

No first-install notes yet.

Alternatives (5)

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  • HFS 2 (HTTP File Server) - You can use HFS (HTTP File Server) to send and receive files.
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  • nginx - Nginx(https://nginx.org/) is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server.

Checked 4 days ago - source: AlternativeTo

Common questions

Does tika-server use a forked process for parsing endpoints?

The parsing endpoints /tika, /rmeta, /unpack, /meta, and /detect run in forked JVMs via Tika Pipes. That isolation prevents a parser crash or OOM from taking down the request-handling process, and it requires a Pipes configuration.

What tika-server configuration capabilities were added in 4.1.0?

Tika 4.1.0 adds named configuration presets for tika-server, Micrometer metrics, and environment-variable interpolation in tika-config.json. OCR and enrichment engines are selected by name through a text-recognizers list.

Does the tika-app jar work if I deploy only the jar?

No, the tika-app jar is a thin launcher that loads parsers from the adjacent lib/ directory. If run without the rest of the unzipped distribution, it fails with NoClassDefFoundError.

Answers sourced from github.com, tika.apache.org, tika.apache.org

Community

Collected 6 days ago - public community threads