chrismattmann/tika-python

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Tika-Python is a Python client library for Apache Tika's REST services, enabling document parsing, text extraction, and MIME detection natively from Python. It automatically downloads and launches the Tika server JAR in the background (requires Java 11+) or can connect to a remote Tika endpoint.

Use cases

• extract text from pdfs in python
• parse word documents to plain text
• detect file mime types
• extract metadata from documents
• ocr scanned documents
• convert html files to text
• parse resumes from pdfs

When to choose

• you need robust text and metadata extraction from many document formats in Python
• you want Apache Tika's parsing power without writing Java
• you need MIME type detection for arbitrary files

When to avoid

• you cannot install Java on your system
• you need a pure-Python parser with no external server process
• you only parse simple formats like plain text or CSV

Facets

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parser nlp ocr pdf http-client files pdf developer-tools python cross-platform cli apache-tika text-extraction mime-detection rest-client document-parsing metadata-extraction natural-language-processing

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