# Apache Tika

Java toolkit that detects and extracts metadata and text from over a thousand different file types, such as PPT, XLS and PDF.


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Last reviewed: 2026-10-31
Listed since: 2026-10-31

## Record

### Links

- home: https://tika.apache.org/
- repository: https://github.com/apache/tika
- docs: https://tika.apache.org/docs/4.2.x/index.html

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: The Apache Software Foundation
- maintainerType: foundation
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2009
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: media
- hosting: java
- language: java
- runtime: jvm
- runtimeMin: jvm 17
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: Maven

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 4
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-28

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 4119
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 168
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://tika.apache.org/ (read 2026-10-31)
- urls: https://tika.apache.org/docs/4.2.x/index.html (read 2026-10-31)
- urls: https://github.com/apache/tika (read 2026-10-31)
- maintainer: https://tika.apache.org/ (read 2026-10-31)
- maintainerType: https://tika.apache.org/ (read 2026-10-31)
- category: https://tika.apache.org/ (read 2026-10-31)
- license: https://github.com/apache/tika (read 2026-10-31)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/apache/tika (read 2026-10-31)
- language: https://github.com/apache/tika (read 2026-10-31)
- runtime: https://tika.apache.org/download.html (read 2026-10-31)
- runtimeMin: https://tika.apache.org/download.html (read 2026-10-31)
- installMethod: https://tika.apache.org/download.html (read 2026-10-31)
- installMethod: https://tika.apache.org/docs/4.2.x/using-tika/docker.html (read 2026-10-31)
- installMethod: https://tika.apache.org/download.html (read 2026-10-31)
- runsAs: https://tika.apache.org/docs/4.2.x/using-tika/server/index.html (read 2026-10-31)
- runsAs: https://tika.apache.org/download.html (read 2026-10-31)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/apache/tika/tags (read 2026-10-31)
- latestReleaseDate: https://tika.apache.org/ (read 2026-10-31)
- firstRelease: https://search.maven.org/solrsearch/select?q=g:org.apache.tika+AND+a:tika-core&core=gav&rows=200&wt=json (read 2026-10-31)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/apache/tika (read 2026-10-31)
- contributors: https://github.com/apache/tika (read 2026-10-31)

## Notes

Apache Tika is a Java toolkit that detects file types and extracts metadata and text from documents such as PPT, XLS and PDF files. It can be embedded in a Java application through its Java API, or run as a separate service: tika-server exposes Tika over HTTP, standalone or in a container. The project publishes official Docker images, zip distributions and Maven artifacts. The Apache Software Foundation maintains it under the Apache-2.0 license.

## Worth knowing

The docs recommend running Tika as a separate service for most use cases, because a parser crash then cannot affect the application that calls it. The current line ships zip distributions rather than runnable jars.

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