Apache Tika Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Apache Tika hosting on xCloud lets you deploy Apache Tika and run a private document parsing API on your own domain. xCloud runs the pinned Apache Tika 4.1.0 minimal image behind an nginx Basic Auth gateway with a generated password and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes. Tika stays on the private network, nothing is stored, and the minimal image has no OCR.

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What is Apache Tika?

Apache Tika detects and extracts metadata and text from over a thousand file types, according to its README, and runs in server form as a REST API. You send a document and get back the extracted text, the metadata as JSON or the detected file type, including for files embedded in other files. A self-hosted Apache Tika is Apache-2.0 licensed, and this deployment is not an official Apache Software Foundation offering.

Tika has no accounts or API keys of its own, so the xCloud template puts an nginx gateway with Basic Authentication in front of the pinned 4.1.0 minimal image, and only the gateway is published. Each upload is processed in a temporary directory and discarded, the pipes and async endpoints are off, and per-request configuration is disabled. There is no Tesseract, so scanned images return no text.

From Sign-Up to a Live Parsing API In Just 3 Easy Steps

A Tika setup normally means a JVM container, an authenticating gateway, a generated password, a domain and a certificate before the first document is parsed. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Apache Tika from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server — there are no extra fields to fill in.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official apache/tika minimal image and a pinned nginx gateway, both by immutable digest. Tika is reachable only on the private network, the gateway requires Basic Auth with a generated password, and HTTPS is published on your domain. There are no volumes.
Step 03
Send Your First Document
Save the password from your installation credentials, open the HTTPS URL and sign in as tika. Then send a file, for example with curl -u tika:<password> -T report.pdf against /tika with an Accept: text/plain header.

Everything Apache Tika Does, On Your Own Server

Apache Tika runs in full here: a private text extraction, metadata and file-type detection API on your own domain, behind a login.

Text From Many Formats
Extract plain text from PDF, Office, HTML, e-mail, archives and many other formats over a simple HTTP call.
Metadata As JSON
Read document metadata as JSON, including embedded files.
File-Type Detection
Detect the real file type of an unknown upload with PUT /detect.
Basic Auth In Front
A Basic Auth login protects the whole site, so strangers cannot use your server to parse files; requests without it return 401.
Feeds Your Pipelines
Feed search indexes, RAG pipelines and document workflows from your own server instead of a third-party service.
Stateless By Design
Nothing is stored, so a Restart loses no data.

Everything You Need To Run Your Parsing API 24/7

Managed hosting for Apache Tika, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Apache Tika 4.1.0 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Basic Auth password generated for you
Kept behind xCloud nginx
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
Choose your server region
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Apache Tika

Feed a search index
Extract text from uploaded documents and pass it to your search engine.
Prepare content for RAG pipelines
Turn PDFs, Office files and e-mail into plain text before chunking and embedding.
Identify unknown uploads
Detect the real file type of a file instead of trusting its extension.
Read document metadata
Pull metadata as JSON, including from embedded files, for document workflows.

Apache Tika vs Alternatives

Cloud document parsing APIs: Hosted services that read your documents on the vendor's servers. An Apache Tika alternative to cloud document parsing APIs runs on your own Cloud VPS, stores nothing and discards each upload after processing.
Docling Serve: Docling Serve has its own OneClick page. In an Apache Tika vs Docling Serve comparison, Docling converts documents into structured Markdown or JSON with layout, table and OCR understanding, whereas this Tika returns text, metadata and file types.
Unstructured: Unstructured has its own OneClick page. It partitions PDFs, Office files, images and text into structured JSON for AI ingestion, where Tika returns plain text and metadata.
Gotenberg: Gotenberg has its own OneClick page. It turns HTML, Markdown and office documents into PDFs, the opposite direction from Tika's extraction.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Apache Tika hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom for heavier documents or several pipelines.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Apache Tika itself is licensed by Apache Tika's maintainers under Apache-2.0.

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

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Ready To Run Your Own Parsing API?

Apache Tika on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Is Apache Tika free?

Yes. Apache Tika is Apache-2.0 software, free to run. Costs are the Cloud VPS hosting the JVM and the gateway, and since nothing is stored, disk use stays tiny while memory is what parsing large files consumes.

How much RAM does Apache Tika need?

The manifest lists 1 CPU core, 1024 MB of RAM and 2 GB of disk, and QA measured about 432 MiB idle. Parsing large or unusual documents uses more memory, so the 6 GB plan gives comfortable headroom.

Can you self-host Apache Tika with Docker?

Yes, and this template is Apache Tika Docker hosting without the gateway work: the official apache/tika minimal 4.1.0 image and a pinned nginx gateway, both by digest, a generated password, no volume and HTTPS on your domain.

How do I send a file to Apache Tika?

Use curl with your login, for example curl -u tika:PASSWORD -T report.pdf https://your-domain/tika with an Accept: text/plain header. The /meta endpoint returns metadata as JSON, /detect returns the file type and /version returns the server version.

Does Apache Tika do OCR?

No. This is the minimal image without Tesseract, so scanned images and image-only PDFs return no text. If you need text from scans, run an OCR-capable tool in front of Tika or choose a service built for it.

Does Apache Tika store my documents?

No. Each upload is processed in a temporary directory and discarded, so there is no document history. The default endpoints also do not read files from your server or fetch remote URLs, and per-request parser configuration is disabled.

Is Apache Tika secure to expose to the internet?

Tika has no accounts of its own, so every request goes through an nginx gateway that returns 401 without the generated username and password. Only the gateway is published. Keep the password private and rotate it in the Environment editor if it leaks.

Edit environment variables

How big a file can I send to Apache Tika?

The site accepts uploads up to 1 GB, but a CDN or proxy in front of your domain may impose a lower limit, commonly about 100 MB on many plans. Large files also need more memory to parse.

How do I back up Apache Tika?

There is nothing to back up, because Tika stores no data and the template has no volume. Keep the gateway password somewhere safe. If you lose it, set a new one in the Environment editor and redeploy.

Backups in xCloud

How do I upgrade Apache Tika?

The install stays on Apache Tika 4.1.0 until you adopt a newer template version. With no volume to copy, read the upstream release notes first and re-test a few of your own documents. Nothing upgrades the app automatically.

Is there an Apache Tika cloud service I can use?

This page is your own Apache Tika cloud: a dedicated Cloud VPS running the open-source server for your pipelines. It is a private instance, not a shared parsing service, so the documents you send are handled only by your server.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.