Apache Tika

Apache Tika Tika API

The Tika API from Apache Tika — 4 operation(s) for tika.

GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 5

GET /tika Tika identity
PUT /tika Extract content from a document
PUT /tika/main Extract main content
PUT /tika/text Extract plain text
POST /tika/form Extract content via multipart form upload

Documentation

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Documentation
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TIKA/TikaServer
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Documentation
https://tika.apache.org/

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/apache-tika/refs/heads/main/openapi/apache-tika-tika-api-openapi.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

apache-tika-tika-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Apache Server REST Apache Server REST Tika API
  version: '1.0'
  description: Minimal OpenAPI for the Apache Tika Server REST API providing content and metadata extraction, language detection, translation, recursive metadata, archive unpacking, and server status endpoints.
servers:
- url: http://localhost:9998
  description: Tika Server
tags:
- name: Tika
paths:
  /tika:
    get:
      summary: Tika identity
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
      tags:
      - Tika
    put:
      summary: Extract content from a document
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/octet-stream:
            schema:
              type: string
              format: binary
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
      tags:
      - Tika
  /tika/main:
    put:
      summary: Extract main content
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/octet-stream:
            schema:
              type: string
              format: binary
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
      tags:
      - Tika
  /tika/text:
    put:
      summary: Extract plain text
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/octet-stream:
            schema:
              type: string
              format: binary
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
      tags:
      - Tika
  /tika/form:
    post:
      summary: Extract content via multipart form upload
      requestBody:
        content:
          multipart/form-data:
            schema:
              type: object
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
      tags:
      - Tika
x-generated-from: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TIKA/TikaServer
x-generated-by: claude-crawl-2026-05-08