Apache Tika
Software for detecting and extracting text and metadata from many file types.
Official site ↗At a glance
- Organization
- Apache Software Foundation
- Type
- software library
- Access
- open source
- Deployment
- self hosted
- Lifecycle
- active
When to consider it
- When a pipeline needs broad file-format extraction
Considerations
- Check file type support and extraction quality for the actual corpus.
Connections
- Supports functionExtract document content
- Uses approachDocument parsing
- In areaData & Preparation
Sources
Last reviewed 2026-09-29