Thanks everyone. After posting about this issue, I found my issue. I was missing a whole set of Tika JARs that are found under Solr: \solr\contrib\extraction\lib\
Steve On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Nick Burch <apa...@gagravarr.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Steven White wrote: > >> What I'm finding is that Tika will not extract the raw text off PDF, >> Powerpoint, ets. files but it will off raw text files. >> > > I'd suggest you try some of the steps in the troubleshooting page: > http://wiki.apache.org/tika/Troubleshooting%20Tika > Probably start at the "No Content Extracted" section, and follow the links > to the possible problems + ways to check > > Solr 5.2 comes with the following Tika JARs which I have included all of >> them: tika-core-1.7.jar, tika-java7-1.7.jar, tika-parsers-1.7.jar, >> tika-xmp-1.7.jar, vorbis-java-tika-0.6.jar, >> kite-morphlines-tika-core-0.12.1.jar and >> kite-morphlines-tika-decompress-0.12.1.jar >> > > You seem to be missing quite a few of the Tika dependencies, which may > well be it, follow the troubleshooting guide to check! > > Nick >