Apache Tika Document Extractor
SkillFiles & storageWraps 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.
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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 is used for tests in tika-integration-tests. If Docker is not installed, those tests are skipped.
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
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Parse a file in Java:
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Source: https://github.com/apache/tika
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Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/tika/HEAD/README.md
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