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Tika - Content Analysis Toolkit

   Apache Tika is a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and
   structured text content from various documents using existing parser
   libraries. For more information about Tika, please see the
   {{{formats.html}list of  supported document formats}} and the
   {{{documentation.html}available documentation}}. You can find the
   latest release on the {{{download.html}download page}}. See the
   {{{gettingstarted.html}Getting Started}} guide for instructions on
   how to start using Tika.

   Tika is a subproject of {{{http://lucene.apache.org/}Apache Lucene}}.
   Lucene is a project of the
   {{{http://www.apache.org/}Apache Software Foundation}}.

Latest News

   [December 2008: Apache Tika Release]
     Apache Tika 0.2 has been released. Please see the download page for more details.

   [November 2008: User mailing list created]
     A new mailing list, tika-user@lucene.apache.org, has been created
     for discussion about the use of the Tika toolkit. You can subscribe
     this mailing list by sending a message to
     tika-user-subscribe@lucene.apache.org.

   [October 2008: Tika graduates to a Lucene subproject]
     Tika has graduated form the Incubator to become a subproject
     of Apache Lucene. The project infrastructure will be migrated from
     incubator.apache.org to lucene.apache.org.

   [October 2008: Apache Tika status report]
     Dave Meikle was just voted in as a new committer.

     Paolo Mottadelli will present Tika at ApacheCon US.

     Tika 0.2 should be released soon.

     Usage documentation has been added to the website.

   [July 2008: Apache Tika status report]
     Tika community remains relatively small, with just a handful
     of active members

     Work towards Tika 0.2 continues, Chris Mattman has volunteered to be
     the release manager

   [April 2008: Apache Tika status report]
     Niall Pemberton joined the project as a committer and PPMC member

     The number of issues reported by external contributors is growing
     gradually.

     There was a Fast Feather Talk on Tika in ApacheCon EU 2008

     We have good contacts especially with Apache POI and PDFBox

     We are working towards Tika 0.2

     Metadata handling improvements are being discussed

   [January 2008: Apache Tika status report]
     No new committers since the last report, activity has been moderate
     but steady, leading to the 0.1 release.

     Tika 0.1 (incubating) has just been released.

     Chris Mattmann intends to use that release in Nutch, That's good
     progress towards Tika's goal of providing data extraction functionality
     to other projects.

     A new Tika logo was created by Google Highly Open Participation
     student, hasn't been integrated yet.

   [December 27th, 2007: Tika 0.1-incubating Released!]
     Tika has made its first official release, titled 0.1-incubating. See
     the {{{http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/tika/CHANGES-0.1-incubating.txt}CHANGES.txt}}
     file for more information on the list of updates in this initial release. Thanks to all
     who contributed! You can download the official source tarball {{{http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/tika}here}}.
   
   [October 8th, 2007: Welcome Keith Bennett!]
     The Tika PPMC has {{{http://www.nabble.com/Please-welcome-Keith-Bennett-as-a-Tika-committer%21-tf4586151.html#a13107428}elected}}
     Keith Bennett as our new committer. Welcome!

   [March 22nd, 2007: Apache Tika project started]
     The Apache Tika project was formally started when the
     {{{http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/TikaProposal}Tika proposal}} was
     {{{http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200703.mbox/%3c510143ac0703221130p4341aa78vd6608c13ffc95a82@mail.gmail.com%3e}accepted}}
     by the {{{http://incubator.apache.org/}Apache Incubator PMC}}.