Tika - Content Analysis Toolkit

Apache Tika is a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and structured text content from various documents using existing parser libraries. For more information about Tika, please see the list of supported document formats and the available documentation . You can find the latest release on the download page . See the Getting Started guide for instructions on how to start using Tika.

Tika is a subproject of Apache Lucene . Lucene is a project of the Apache Software Foundation .

Latest News

November 2009: Apache Tika Release
Apache Tika 0.5 has been released. Please see the download page for more details.
14 August 2009 - Lucene at US ApacheCon
ApacheCon US is once again in the Bay Area and Lucene is coming along for the ride! The Lucene community has planned two full days of talks, plus a meetup and the usual bevy of training. With a well-balanced mix of first time and veteran ApacheCon speakers, the Lucene track at ApacheCon US promises to have something for everyone. Be sure not to miss:

Training:

Thursday, Nov. 5th:

Friday, Nov. 6th:

July 2009: Apache Tika Release
Apache Tika 0.4 has been released. Please see the download page for more details.
March 2009: Apache Tika Release
Apache Tika 0.3 has been released. Please see the download page for more details.
February 2009: Lucene at ApacheCon Europe 2009 in Amsterdam
Lucene will be extremely well represented at ApacheCon EU 2009 in Amsterdam, Netherlands this March 23-27, 2009:
December 2008: Apache Tika Release
Apache Tika 0.2 has been released. Please see the download page for more details.
November 2008: User mailing list created
A new mailing list, tika-user@lucene.apache.org, has been created for discussion about the use of the Tika toolkit. You can subscribe this mailing list by sending a message to tika-user-subscribe@lucene.apache.org.
October 2008: Tika graduates to a Lucene subproject
Tika has graduated form the Incubator to become a subproject of Apache Lucene. The project infrastructure will be migrated from incubator.apache.org to lucene.apache.org.
October 2008: Apache Tika status report
Dave Meikle was just voted in as a new committer.

Paolo Mottadelli will present Tika at ApacheCon US.

Tika 0.2 should be released soon.

Usage documentation has been added to the website.

July 2008: Apache Tika status report
Tika community remains relatively small, with just a handful of active members

Work towards Tika 0.2 continues, Chris Mattman has volunteered to be the release manager

April 2008: Apache Tika status report
Niall Pemberton joined the project as a committer and PPMC member

The number of issues reported by external contributors is growing gradually.

There was a Fast Feather Talk on Tika in ApacheCon EU 2008

We have good contacts especially with Apache POI and PDFBox

We are working towards Tika 0.2

Metadata handling improvements are being discussed

January 2008: Apache Tika status report
No new committers since the last report, activity has been moderate but steady, leading to the 0.1 release.

Tika 0.1 (incubating) has just been released.

Chris Mattmann intends to use that release in Nutch, That's good progress towards Tika's goal of providing data extraction functionality to other projects.

A new Tika logo was created by Google Highly Open Participation student, hasn't been integrated yet.

December 27th, 2007: Tika 0.1-incubating Released!
Tika has made its first official release, titled 0.1-incubating. See the CHANGES.txt file for more information on the list of updates in this initial release. Thanks to all who contributed! You can download the official source tarball here .
October 8th, 2007: Welcome Keith Bennett!
The Tika PPMC has elected Keith Bennett as our new committer. Welcome!
March 22nd, 2007: Apache Tika project started
The Apache Tika project was formally started when the Tika proposal was accepted by the Apache Incubator PMC .