public static String getString() {
        String version = null;

        try (InputStream stream = Tika.class
                .getResourceAsStream("/META-INF/maven/org.apache.tika/tika-core/pom.properties")) {
            if (stream != null) {
                Properties properties = new Properties();
                properties.load(stream);
                version = properties.getProperty("version");
            }
        } catch (Exception ignore) {
        }

        if (version != null) {
            return "Apache Tika " + version;
        } else {
            return "Apache Tika";
        }
    }
Returns the translator instance used by this facade.

@return translator instance
@since Tika 1.6
tika-core/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/Tika.java