Apache Tika

Apache Tika is an open-source Java toolkit for turning many document types into usable text. It gives ingestion and search workflows one consistent way to handle files across formats.

Key Features:

• Broad Format Support - Detects and reads more than 1,000 file types
• Text Extraction - Pulls readable text from documents for search, analysis, and processing
• Document Details - Captures useful file information through the same interface
• Java Based - Built in Java and released under the Apache-2.0 license
• Established Project - The apache/tika repository has 3,823 GitHub stars and 941 forks