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OpenELIS GlobalvsApache Tika

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

OpenELIS GlobalApache Tika
Score54/10068/100
Rank in category#3 of 5 in Healthcare#1 of 2 in Data Extraction
GitHub stars2784 115
Stars, last 30 days+0+16
Stable releases, 12 months80
Latest release3.3.0 · 20 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseMPL-2.0Apache-2.0
Main languageJavaJava

Which one should you pick?

Apache Tika scores 68/100 against 54/100 for OpenELIS Global, so it is the safer default.

OpenELIS Global ships more often: 8 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Apache Tika.

Apache Tika is growing faster right now (+16 stars in 30 days).

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