Apache Tika Document Extractor

---
name: "Apache Tika Document Extractor"
slug: "apache-tika-document-extractor"
description: "Wraps Apache Tika Server REST API for extracting structured text from PDFs, DOCX, PPTX, and 1,200+ file formats. Outputs clean markdown with metadata preservation using Tika /rmeta/text endpoint and recursive parsing mode."
github_stars: 3695
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/apache/tika"
category: "Data Extraction & Transformation"
framework: "Codex"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "apache/tika"
  github_stars: 3695
---

# Apache Tika Document Extractor

Wraps Apache Tika Server REST API for extracting structured text from PDFs, DOCX, PPTX, and 1,200+ file formats. Outputs clean markdown with metadata preservation using Tika /rmeta/text endpoint and recursive parsing mode.

## Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- **N.B.** [Docker](https://www.docker.com/products/personal) is used for tests in tika-integration-tests. If Docker is not installed, those tests are skipped.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- ===========
- **Parse a file in Java:**
- java

- Source: https://github.com/apache/tika
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/tika/HEAD/README.md

## Source

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