Thanks Tom again for trying to help me out but it didn't work out on my side:
What i did: poi-3.8-beta3-20110606 pdfbox-app-1.6.0 tika-core-0.9 Replaced all the jars above as you said. The following jars were also necessary as it was giving many errors: poi-scratchpad-3.8-beta3-20110606 poi-ooxml-schemas-3.8-beta3-20110606 poi-ooxml-3.8-beta3-20110606 FINALLY WHEN I TRY TO POST DOCS AGAIN, HERES WHAT I GET AS EXCEPTION: Aug 20, 2011 1:14:41 AM org.apache.solr.common.SolrException log SEVERE: java.lang.InstantiationError: org.apache.tika.extractor.EmbeddedDocumentExtractor at org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.AbstractPOIFSExtractor.<init>(AbstractPOIFSExtractor.java:46) at org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.WordExtractor.<init>(WordExtractor.java:53) at org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.OfficeParser.parse(OfficeParser.java:187) at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:197) at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:197) at org.apache.tika.parser.AutoDetectParser.parse(AutoDetectParser.java:135) at org.apache.solr.handler.extraction.ExtractingDocumentLoader.load(ExtractingDocumentLoader.java:210) at org.apache.solr.handler.ContentStreamHandlerBase.handleRequestBody(ContentStreamHandlerBase.java:67) at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:129) at org.apache.solr.core.RequestHandlers$LazyRequestHandlerWrapper.handleRequest(RequestHandlers.java:241) at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1368) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:356) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:252) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1212) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:399) at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216) at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:182) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:766) at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:450) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:230) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114) at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152) at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:326) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:542) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.content(HttpConnection.java:945) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:756) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:218) at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:404) at org.mortbay.jetty.bio.SocketConnector$Connection.run(SocketConnector.java:228) at org.mortbay.thread.QueuedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:582) -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Tika-0-9-integration-in-Solr-3-3-0-tp3267799p3269114.html Sent from the Apache Tika - Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com.