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Created by
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, last modified by
Tim Allison
on
Aug 27, 2025
General Information
Tika Website
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TikaResources
- Articles, books, podcasts, etc. on using Tika
Troubleshooting Tika
3rd party parser plugins
DeveloperResources
Using Tika Server
- How to deploy Tika as a RESTful Service.
API Bindings for Tika
Logging
Tika Roadmap – 2.x, 3.x and beyond
Tika Roadmap -- 2.x, 3.x and Beyond
Migrating to Tika 2.0.0
Migrating to 2.0.0
Contributing to the wiki
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Committer Info
UsingGit
- Information on Tika's configuration management using Git.
Release Process
- Info on releasing Tika
ThirdPartySonaType
- A guide to staging and deploying third party jars on
Sonatype OSSRH
(OSS Repository Hosting) for subsequent use within Tika parser wrappers
VirtualMachine
- a virtual machine hosted by Rackspace that allows an instance of
Tika Server
to run for public testing. Set up by Tim Allison et al.
Downstream Uses of Tika
- Some of the key projects depending on us, who we might want to discuss changes or releases with
User Notes
Using Tika Server
- How to deploy Tika as a RESTful Service.
ModifyingContentWithHandlersAndMetadataFilters
How to configure limits and modify parsed content with the AutoDetectParserConfig, custom ContentHandlers, metadata filters and metadata write filters.
API Bindings for Tika
- Using Tika from additional languages and frameworks.
PostingManyFilesToExtractingRequestHandler
- How to post many files to the Extracting Request Handler (Tika) in Solr.
IntegratingTikaWithExtractingRequestHandler
- Building the latest Tika and integrating it with the Extracting Request Handler (Tika) in Solr.
Some stats using Tesseract OCR
- some stats from a contributing team (Hyperion Gray) about using TesseractOCR (will be updated with Tika).
Troubleshooting Tika
Notes on configuring parsing via the ParseContext
Notes on Specific Parsers
Notes on configuring Tika to extract embedded vba and js
Using the tika-eval Module
When does Tika need/create a File rather than an InputStream?
How to Test Your Framework's Handling of Tika Behaving Badly
MIME identification design/implementation
Bayesian MIME selection
- Tika's new Bayesian MIME selector.
Content-based MIME selection with Byte histograms
- Tika's new content/byte histogram MIME detector.
Advanced Content Extraction with Tika - Integration
Getting Tika up and Running with Pooled Time Series
- How to use Tika with the Pooled Time Series video descriptor similarity code.
Getting Tika up and Running with Apache cTAKES
- How to use Tika with Apache cTAKES the clinical text biomedical knowledge extraction framework.
Getting Tika up and Running with EXIFTool
- How to use Tika with EXIFTool.
Getting Tika up and Running with FFMPEG
- How to use Tika with FFMPEG.
Getting Tika up and Running with the GROBID PDF Journal parser
- How to use Tika with the GROBID PDF journal parser.
Getting Tika up and Running with the GeoTopicParser based on Geonames.org, Lucene, and OpenNLP
Getting Tika up and Running with OCR
- How to use Tika with OCR from Tesseract.
Getting Tika up and Running with the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL)
- How to use Tika with GDAL to parse/extract geospatial data files.
Entity Recognition Support
Named Entity Recognition (NER) support
Getting Tika up and running with Stanford Core NLP and with OpenNLP
- How to use Tika with Stanford NER/NLP and with Apache Open NLP.
Getting Tika up and running with NLTK
- How to use Tika with the Python Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK).
Getting Tika up and running with Grobid Quantities Measurement Parsing
- How to use Tika with the Grobid Quantities measurement parser.
Getting Tika up and running with MIT Lincoln Lab's MIT-nlp Information Extraction (MITIE) toolkit
- How to use Tika with MITIE from MIT-NLP.
Getting Tika up and running with automatic Age Detection from Text
- How to use Tika with USC IRDS age detection tools.
Object Recognition (Computer Vision) support
Images
Getting Tika up and running for Image Visual Recognition
- How to use Tika with Tensorflow's Inception-V4 ImageNet for visual recognition of images.
Getting Tika up and running for Image Visual Recognition using Deep Learning 4J (DL4J)
- How to use Tika with Tensorflow's Inception V-3 ImageNet and VGG-16 for visual recognition in pure Java.
Getting Tika up and running for Computer Vision - Image Captioning
- How to use Tika with Tensorflow for combining Computer Vision and NLP to automatically generate captions of images.
Video
Getting Tika up and running for Video Visual Recognition
- How to use Tika with Tensorflow's Inception-V4 ImageNet for visual recognition of videos.
Language Translation
Statistical Machine Translation
Statistical Machine Translation with Apache Joshua (Incubating)
- A guide for leveraging Apache Joshua for language translation via the Tika.translate API.
Neural Machine Translation powered by Reader Translator Generator toolkit
- A guide for RTG integration with Tika.translate API
Design
MetadataDiscussion
- discussions on the design of MIME type detection and parsing for recursive metadata formats (and container formats) like Zip, etc.
RecursiveMetadata
- proposals for dealing with recursive metadata, based on the
MetadataDiscussion
page.
Tika JAX-RS Server
- documentation on the recently contributed tika-server module.
Metadata roadmap
- Documentation and Discussion about the metadata roadmap for Tika
Errors and Exceptions
- What parsers should output/throw when, for empty/invalid/unsupported files
Composite Parsers discussion
- How to give users sensible+clear control of multiple parsers for a given file type
Tika 2.0 discussion
- Roadmap for changes we would like to make for Tika 2.0
Tika 2.0 Migration Guide
- Guide for migrating to Tika 2.0 (once it is available)
Meetings and Tutorials
Apache Tika Meetups
Open Preserve Foundation Talk on Embedded Files
Regression Testing On the Rackspace VM
How to run tika-eval on the VM
oss-fuzz
Beginner's guide to oss-fuzz
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