<story><title>Apache Tika – a content analysis toolkit</title><url>https://tika.apache.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>geerlingguy</author><text>Tika has been around for ages, and I remember many of the early versions (probably up to 1.2 or 1.3) would completely explode if you threw in a PDF with some UTF-8 characters, or Word documents with many foreign&amp;#x2F;non-ASCII languages.&lt;p&gt;Thankfully nowadays the problem I run into the most is memory exhaustion when some client uploads a 500+ MB PDF and expects my cheap Solr SaaS (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hostedapachesolr.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hostedapachesolr.com&lt;/a&gt;) to handle extraction for these giant files!</text></comment>
<story><title>Apache Tika – a content analysis toolkit</title><url>https://tika.apache.org/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>GEBBL</author><text>A timely link given there is a current discussion on the trouble with extracting meaningful text from pdfs in another thread on the front page! I look forward to reading the feedback on actual use of this</text></comment>