Apache Tika is the Apache Software Foundation's content-extraction toolkit; its ASF project page 1 is the official source, and the Apache Tika project itself is named in that listing, though the page excerpt does not describe its functionality. Alternatives below address document and content extraction more generally.
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Apache Tikaapache.orgverified and signed
Apache Software Foundation project for detecting and extracting metadata and text from a wide range of file formats, listed on the ASF site 1.
for agents: Avro · Apache · Json
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ANTLRantlr.orgverified and signed
Parser generator that builds parsers for reading and processing structured text or binary files from a grammar 9.
for agents: parsing · antlr · antlr3
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Sources
- 1Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundationapache.org · read 2026-10-29
- 5lxml - Processing XML and HTML with Pythonlxml.de · read 2026-10-29
- 8Talonic · The AI Data Registry for enterprisestalonic.com · read 2026-10-29
- 9ANTLRantlr.org · read 2026-10-29
- 18Talonic: declares "Document Extraction" (the record we read and signed)unfragile.ai · read 2026-10-24
For agents: the 10 actions behind this answer
· Apache Software Foundation Tika website read, tools not yet checked
java-refactoring-extract-method · java-refactoring-extract-method verified and signed
Refactoring using Extract Methods in Java Language
extract · Firecrawl (Activepieces) verified and signed
Extract Structured Data — Extract structured data from multiple URLs using AI.
Content Extract · Tavily verified and signed
Extracts clean, structured content from one or more URLs. Strips navigation, ads, and boilerplate, returning text optimized for LLM consumption. e.g. Extract the main article content from this URL e.g. Get the text content from these documentation pages
· lxml website read, tools not yet checked
lxml - the most feature-rich and easy-to-use library for processing XML and HTML in the Python language
XML · beautifulsoup4 verified and signed
Avro · Apache.Avro verified and signed
· Apache Software Foundation Arrow website read, tools not yet checked
inference · apache-tvm-ffi verified and signed
fetch_extract · ToolSnap MCP verified and signed
Fetch a URL, return clean text. Free. Median 98% fewer tokens than raw HTML. Not for JS SPAs.
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