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seedboxvsApache Tika

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

seedboxApache Tika
Score53/10068/100
Rank in category#50 of 118 in Media Server#1 of 2 in Data Extraction
GitHub stars4034 113
Stars, last 30 days—+14
Stable releases, 12 months10
Latest releasev3.0.0 · 12 Oct 2026—
SetupAdvancedModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Main languageShellJava

Which one should you pick?

Apache Tika scores 68/100 against 53/100 for seedbox, so it is the safer default.

seedbox ships more often: 1 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for Apache Tika.

If you want the quickest setup, Apache Tika is easier to run; seedbox needs more configuration.

Apache Tika is growing faster right now (+14 stars in 30 days).

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