Apache Tika Document Parser

---
name: "Apache Tika Document Parser"
slug: "apache-tika-document-parser"
description: "Extracts structured text, metadata, and embedded objects from PDFs, Office documents, and 1000+ file formats using the Apache Tika REST API. Outputs clean Markdown or JSON with XMP metadata preservation."
github_stars: 3703
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/apache/tika"
author: "The Apache Software Foundation"
category: "Data Extraction & Transformation"
framework: "Gemini"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "apache/tika"
  github_stars: 3703
---

# Apache Tika Document Parser

Extracts structured text, metadata, and embedded objects from PDFs, Office documents, and 1000+ file formats using the Apache Tika REST API. Outputs clean Markdown or JSON with XMP metadata preservation.

## 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

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