Apache Tika
Apache Tika is a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and structured text content from over 1,000 file formats including PDF, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), OpenDocument, HTML, XML, images, audio, video, and archive formats. Tika provides a REST API server, Java library, and command-line tool. It is used by Apache Solr, Apache Nutch, and many other systems for content extraction and indexing. It is maintained by the Apache Software Foundation.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Apache Tika the way a machine reads it — 36 machine-readable artifacts across 13 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Apache Tika scores 41.6/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Apache Tika
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Apache Tika. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 13
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Apache Tika Java API
The Tika Java API provides the AutoDetectParser for automatic format detection and parsing, Metadata class for reading extracted metadata fields, ContentHandler for streaming SA...
Apache Tika Apache Tika Server REST API API
The Apache Tika Server REST API API from Apache Tika — 1 operation(s) for apache tika server rest api.
Apache Tika Detect API
The Detect API from Apache Tika — 1 operation(s) for detect.
Apache Tika Detectors API
The Detectors API from Apache Tika — 1 operation(s) for detectors.
Apache Tika Language API
The Language API from Apache Tika — 2 operation(s) for language.
Apache Tika Meta API
The Meta API from Apache Tika — 3 operation(s) for meta.
Apache Tika Mime Types API
The Mime Types API from Apache Tika — 1 operation(s) for mime types.
Apache Tika Parsers API
The Parsers API from Apache Tika — 2 operation(s) for parsers.
Apache Tika Rmeta API
The Rmeta API from Apache Tika — 5 operation(s) for rmeta.
Apache Tika Status API
The Status API from Apache Tika — 1 operation(s) for status.
Apache Tika Tika API
The Tika API from Apache Tika — 4 operation(s) for tika.
Apache Tika Translate API
The Translate API from Apache Tika — 2 operation(s) for translate.
Apache Tika Unpack API
The Unpack API from Apache Tika — 2 operation(s) for unpack.
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Apache Tika Server REST API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Apache Tika Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Apache Tika Finops
FINOPSFeatures 7
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
1000+ Format Support
Detect and extract content from over 1,000 file formats using parser plugins.
Metadata Extraction
Extract document metadata including author, creation date, title, and format-specific properties.
Language Detection
Automatic language detection from extracted text content.
MIME Type Detection
Accurate MIME type detection based on file content (magic bytes) not just file extension.
REST Server
Standalone HTTP server for document processing without Java library dependency.
OCR Integration
Optional Tesseract OCR integration for text extraction from images and scanned PDFs.
Recursive Parsing
Recursive parsing of archive formats (ZIP, TAR, JAR) and embedded documents.
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 4
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Search Indexing
Extract text from documents for indexing in Apache Solr or Elasticsearch.
Document Intelligence
Automated metadata extraction and classification for document management systems.
Content Migration
Batch content extraction during digital archive migration and transformation.
E-Discovery
Legal e-discovery content extraction from diverse document collections.
Integrations 5
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
Apache Solr
Solr Cell uses Tika for extracting text from uploaded documents for indexing.
Apache Nutch
Nutch web crawler uses Tika for parsing fetched web page content.
Elasticsearch
Ingest attachment processor uses Tika for document content extraction.
Tesseract OCR
Optional Tesseract integration for OCR on images and scanned documents.
Apache NiFi
NiFi processor integration for automated document parsing workflows.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Apache Tika — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
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