tika ☆
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Description:
Content analysis toolkit
Type: Formula  |  Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025
Links: Homepage  |  @ApacheTika  |  formulae.brew.sh
Category: Developer tools
Tags: parsing metadata-extraction document-processing search-indexing content-analysis
Install: brew install tika
About:
Apache Tika is a content analysis toolkit that detects and extracts metadata and structured text content from over a thousand different file types. It provides a unified parsing interface, enabling developers to index content for search engines and analyze documents without managing complex format-specific libraries. This makes it essential for building robust document ingestion and data extraction pipelines.
Key Features:
  • Unified parsing interface for over 1,000 file formats
  • Automatic content type detection and language identification
  • Java-based server (Tika Server) with a RESTful API
  • Integration with Apache Lucene and Solr for search indexing
Use Cases:
  • Building search indexes for enterprise document management systems
  • Extracting text and metadata for data analysis and compliance auditing
  • Automating document processing workflows in content management systems
Alternatives:
  • Apache NiFi – NiFi is a dataflow automation tool that can use Tika for processing, but Tika is specifically focused on the parsing aspect.
  • Pandoc – Pandoc is excellent for converting documents between markup formats, whereas Tika focuses on raw content extraction and metadata.
Version History
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Sep 16, 2025 4:47am 0 VERSION_BUMP 18cddaae
Sep 13, 2024 7:29pm 1 VERSION_BUMP 96c62085
Oct 21, 2023 1:40pm 0 VERSION_BUMP 6876b200
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