diff --git a/apache-tika/.gitignore b/apache-tika/.gitignore
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index 0000000000..5f88621edc
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+++ b/apache-tika/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+*.docx
+temp.xls
+temp.xlsx
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diff --git a/apache-tika/pom.xml b/apache-tika/pom.xml
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+++ b/apache-tika/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+    <artifactId>apache-tika</artifactId>
+    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+        <artifactId>parent-modules</artifactId>
+        <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    </parent>
+
+    <properties>
+        <tika.version>1.17</tika.version>
+    </properties>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.tika</groupId>
+            <artifactId>tika-parsers</artifactId>
+            <version>${tika.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+</project>
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diff --git a/apache-tika/src/main/java/com/baeldung/tika/TikaAnalysis.java b/apache-tika/src/main/java/com/baeldung/tika/TikaAnalysis.java
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index 0000000000..85eafc7c08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apache-tika/src/main/java/com/baeldung/tika/TikaAnalysis.java
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+package com.baeldung.tika;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+
+import org.apache.tika.Tika;
+import org.apache.tika.detect.DefaultDetector;
+import org.apache.tika.detect.Detector;
+import org.apache.tika.exception.TikaException;
+import org.apache.tika.metadata.Metadata;
+import org.apache.tika.mime.MediaType;
+import org.apache.tika.parser.AutoDetectParser;
+import org.apache.tika.parser.ParseContext;
+import org.apache.tika.parser.Parser;
+import org.apache.tika.sax.BodyContentHandler;
+import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
+import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
+
+public class TikaAnalysis {
+    public static String detectDocTypeUsingDetector(InputStream stream) throws IOException {
+        Detector detector = new DefaultDetector();
+        Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
+
+        MediaType mediaType = detector.detect(stream, metadata);
+        return mediaType.toString();
+    }
+
+    public static String detectDocTypeUsingFacade(InputStream stream) throws IOException {
+        Tika tika = new Tika();
+        String mediaType = tika.detect(stream);
+        return mediaType;
+    }
+
+    public static String extractContentUsingParser(InputStream stream) throws IOException, TikaException, SAXException {
+        Parser parser = new AutoDetectParser();
+        ContentHandler handler = new BodyContentHandler();
+        Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
+        ParseContext context = new ParseContext();
+
+        parser.parse(stream, handler, metadata, context);
+        return handler.toString();
+    }
+
+    public static String extractContentUsingFacade(InputStream stream) throws IOException, TikaException {
+        Tika tika = new Tika();
+        String content = tika.parseToString(stream);
+        return content;
+    }
+
+    public static Metadata extractMetadatatUsingParser(InputStream stream) throws IOException, SAXException, TikaException {
+        Parser parser = new AutoDetectParser();
+        ContentHandler handler = new BodyContentHandler();
+        Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
+        ParseContext context = new ParseContext();
+
+        parser.parse(stream, handler, metadata, context);
+        return metadata;
+    }
+
+    public static Metadata extractMetadatatUsingFacade(InputStream stream) throws IOException, TikaException {
+        Tika tika = new Tika();
+        Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
+
+        tika.parse(stream, metadata);
+        return metadata;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/apache-tika/src/test/java/com/baeldung/tika/TikaUnitTest.java b/apache-tika/src/test/java/com/baeldung/tika/TikaUnitTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..555a796d59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apache-tika/src/test/java/com/baeldung/tika/TikaUnitTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+package com.baeldung.tika;
+
+import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.containsString;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+
+import org.apache.tika.exception.TikaException;
+import org.apache.tika.metadata.Metadata;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
+
+public class TikaUnitTest {
+    private ClassLoader loader = this.getClass().getClassLoader();
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUsingDetector_thenDocumentTypeIsReturned() throws IOException {
+        InputStream stream = loader.getResourceAsStream("tika.txt");
+        String mediaType = TikaAnalysis.detectDocTypeUsingDetector(stream);
+
+        assertEquals("application/pdf", mediaType);
+
+        stream.close();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUsingFacade_thenDocumentTypeIsReturned() throws IOException {
+        InputStream stream = loader.getResourceAsStream("tika.txt");
+        String mediaType = TikaAnalysis.detectDocTypeUsingFacade(stream);
+
+        assertEquals("application/pdf", mediaType);
+
+        stream.close();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUsingParser_thenContentIsReturned() throws IOException, TikaException, SAXException {
+        InputStream stream = loader.getResourceAsStream("tika.docx");
+        String content = TikaAnalysis.extractContentUsingParser(stream);
+
+        assertThat(content, containsString("Apache Tika - a content analysis toolkit"));
+        assertThat(content, containsString("detects and extracts metadata and text"));
+
+        stream.close();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUsingFacade_thenContentIsReturned() throws IOException, TikaException {
+        InputStream stream = loader.getResourceAsStream("tika.docx");
+        String content = TikaAnalysis.extractContentUsingFacade(stream);
+
+        assertThat(content, containsString("Apache Tika - a content analysis toolkit"));
+        assertThat(content, containsString("detects and extracts metadata and text"));
+
+        stream.close();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUsingParser_thenMetadataIsReturned() throws IOException, TikaException, SAXException {
+        InputStream stream = loader.getResourceAsStream("tika.xlsx");
+        Metadata metadata = TikaAnalysis.extractMetadatatUsingParser(stream);
+
+        assertEquals("org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser", metadata.get("X-Parsed-By"));
+        assertEquals("Microsoft Office User", metadata.get("Author"));
+
+        stream.close();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenUsingFacade_thenMetadataIsReturned() throws IOException, TikaException {
+        InputStream stream = loader.getResourceAsStream("tika.xlsx");
+        Metadata metadata = TikaAnalysis.extractMetadatatUsingFacade(stream);
+
+        assertEquals("org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser", metadata.get("X-Parsed-By"));
+        assertEquals("Microsoft Office User", metadata.get("Author"));
+
+        stream.close();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/apache-tika/src/test/resources/tika.txt b/apache-tika/src/test/resources/tika.txt
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diff --git a/apache-tika/src/test/resources/tika.xlsx b/apache-tika/src/test/resources/tika.xlsx
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diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 75cf4b84b8..1731e1661c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
         <module>apache-cxf</module>
         <module>apache-fop</module>
         <module>apache-poi</module>
+        <module>apache-tika</module>
         <module>apache-thrift</module>
         <module>autovalue</module>
         <module>axon</module>
@@ -383,4 +384,4 @@
             </extension>
         </extensions>
     </build>
-</project>
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+</project>