Apache Tika Installation

To install Tika, we can use couple of ways on the basis of requirement. Some common installation options are given below.

Source Release
Maven Dependency
Command Line Utility

Note: Tika 1.18 require Java 7 or higher for implementation.

1. Source Release

First visit the official site of Apache Tike and download latest version from there. After downloading, we can use it's libraries to implement in our application.

The Tika build contains the following components.

Component	Description
tika-core/target/tika-core-*.jar	It is core library that contains core classes and interfaces.
tika-parsers/target/tika-parsers-*.jar	It is a Tika parser library. It contains the classes that implement the Tika Parser interface based on external libraries.
tika-app/target/tika-app-*.jar	A Tika application, which is a runnable jar that has Graphical User Interface and command line interface.
tika-server/target/tika-server-*.jar	It contains Tika JAX-RS REST application.
tika-bundle/target/tika-bundle-*.jar	It is an OSGI bundle which contains tika-parsers with non-OSGified parser libraries. It makes them easy to deploy on OSGI environment.
tika-eval/target/tika-eval-*.jar	It provides a command-line tool to assess the output of Tika.

2. To implement Tika in maven project, we can use following dependencies in pom.xml file.

<dependencies>
  	<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.tika</groupId>
    <artifactId>tika-core</artifactId>
    <version>1.18</version>
  </dependency>
	
	<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.tika</groupId>
    <artifactId>tika-parsers</artifactId>
    <version>1.18</version>
  </dependency>