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netboot.xyzvsApache Tika

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

netboot.xyzApache Tika
Score74/10068/100
Rank in category#1 of 11 in Deployment#1 of 2 in Data Extraction
GitHub stars12 5744 116
Stars, last 30 days+253+17
Stable releases, 12 months50
Latest release3.0.3 · 29 Aug 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseApache-2.0Apache-2.0
Main languageJinjaJava

Which one should you pick?

netboot.xyz scores 74/100 against 68/100 for Apache Tika, so it is the safer default.

netboot.xyz ships more often: 5 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Apache Tika.

netboot.xyz is growing faster right now (+253 stars in 30 days).

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