Tika is an open source project that provides a generic API for extracting metadata and structured text content from various document formats. It uses automatic content type detection to parse documents without needing to know the file type in advance. The project aims to pool efforts across various Apache projects like Apache POI and Apache PDFBox to provide a common solution for parsing different file types.

1. MIME Magic with Apache Tika Jukka Zitting Tika committer and mentor

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3. The Problem PDFBox Apache POI Apache Xerces ICU4J NekoHTML etc. Lucene index

4. It's even worse! Licensing/Patents Dependencies Metadata extraction Structured content Encryption/Compression Package formats Streaming/Performance Processing of digital media ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

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15. Demo: Tika GUI

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