Quickstart for Tika

Apache Tika a content analysis toolkit detects and extracts metadata and text from over a thousand different file types (such as PPT, XLS, and PDF). All of these file types can be parsed through a single interface, making Apache Tika useful for search engine indexing, content analysis, translation, and much more.

Deploy Tika on Elestio

1. Open the Tika deployment page and sign in, or create an account.
2. Choose a cloud provider, a region and a data center. Pick the region closest to your users for the lowest latency.
3. Choose an instance size. Elestio only lists the sizes that can run Tika properly (at least 1 vCPU and 1 GB of RAM).
4. Choose your support plan and the maintenance window for system and software updates (times are in UTC).
5. Click Create Service. Tika is deployed and ready in a few minutes, and you receive an email with the access details.

The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the installation guide.

Access Tika

Open your service in the Elestio dashboard and go to the Overview tab. Click Display Admin UI to reveal the URL, username and password of your Tika instance.

If the password field is blank, Tika does not ship with a pre-created admin user: open the admin URL to start its setup. Software without a web interface, such as databases, is reached with the credentials and port listed in the same tab. See Admin UI and credentials.

Next steps

• Custom domain and SSL: point your own domain to Tika (guide).
• Backups: new services follow a 3-2-1 backup strategy by default (backups).
• Updates: manage the Tika version and update policy (software versions and updates).
• Learn Tika: read the official Tika documentation.