# Apache Tika Document Parser Agent

> Extracts text and metadata from 1000+ file formats using Apache Tika server REST API. Handles PDF OCR via Tesseract integration, Office document parsing, and email archive extraction with MIME detection.

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- Updated: 2026-09-08
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# Apache Tika Document Parser Agent

Extracts text and metadata from 1000+ file formats using Apache Tika server REST API. Handles PDF OCR via Tesseract integration, Office document parsing, and email archive extraction with MIME detection.

## Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- **N.B.** [Docker](https://www.docker.com/products/personal) is used for tests in tika-integration-tests. If Docker is not installed, those tests are skipped.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- ===========
- **Parse a file in Java:**
- java

- Source: https://github.com/apache/tika
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/tika/HEAD/README.md

## Source

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