Tika 3 updates and Tika 1.x no longer available starting April 28, 2026

Tika config support for disabling OCR

Tika 3 enables OCR (Optical Character Recognition) via Tesseract by default, which can significantly increase processing times for PDFs and image-based documents. A bundled tika-config.xml is now available on all Pantheon environments to disable OCR:

Pass it to Tika using the --config flag:

See External Libraries: Apache Tika for details.

Search API Attachments module update for Drupal

Drupal sites using the Search API Attachments module can now disable OCR directly from the admin UI. Version 10.0.8 adds a Path to Tika configuration file field at /admin/config/search/search_api_attachments. Set it to /opt/pantheon/tika/tika-config.xml

Tika 1.x no longer available starting April 28, 2026

Tika 1.18 and 1.21 are being removed from the platform:

• April 28, 2026 — tika_version: 1 in pantheon.yml will be ignored. Sites will automatically use Tika 3.
• May 12, 2026 — tika_version: 1 in pantheon.yml will be rejected.