Apache Tika

Java based tool for identifying file formats using signatures and extracting metadata and text content from documents.
Homepage:	http://tika.apache.org/
License:	Apache License, Version 2.0
Platforms:	Java
Appears in COW:	CUL's ingest workflow into AWS Cloud

Description

Java based tool for identifying file formats using signatures and extracting metadata and text content from documents.

User Experiences

• Comparing how Apache Tika and DROID perform HTML identification: How much of the UK's HTML is valid?
• Apache Tika is a core component of the Web Archive Discovery indexer and profiler.
• A number of pages on the OPF Wiki mention Tika.

Development Activity

Release Feed

Link to any RSS feed that is updated when new releases occur, if any, e.g: Failed to load RSS feed from http://projects.apache.org/feeds/rss/tika.xml: There was a problem during the HTTP request: 404 Not Found

Activity Feed

Link to any RSS feed that is updated when issue or code updates occur, if any, e.g:

2026-06-17 13:06:45

ASF GitHub Bot created a link from ASF GitHub Bot created a link from ASF GitHub Bot created a link from Gargi Jaiswal changed the status to Patch Available on...

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2026-06-17 13:05:40

ASF GitHub Bot updated a link from Haonan Hou changed the Assignee to 'ASF GitHub Bot changed the Labels to 'pull-request-available'...

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