diff --git a/bom/application/pom.xml b/bom/application/pom.xml
index db5462445db48..88706df0568ea 100644
--- a/bom/application/pom.xml
+++ b/bom/application/pom.xml
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
         <zookeeper.version>3.5.7</zookeeper.version>
         <!-- Scala is used by Kafka so we need to choose a compatible version -->
         <scala.version>2.12.13</scala.version>
-        <tika.version>1.24.1</tika.version>
+        <tika.version>1.26</tika.version>
         <ooxml-schemas.version>1.4</ooxml-schemas.version>
         <aws-lambda-java.version>1.2.1</aws-lambda-java.version>
         <aws-lambda-java-events.version>3.8.0</aws-lambda-java-events.version>
@@ -2954,6 +2954,7 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.apache.tika</groupId>
                 <artifactId>tika-parsers</artifactId>
+                <version>${tika.version}</version>
                 <exclusions>
                     <exclusion>
                         <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
@@ -2963,8 +2964,19 @@
                         <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
                         <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
                     </exclusion>
+                    <exclusion>
+                        <groupId>javax.activation</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>activation</artifactId>
+                    </exclusion>
+                    <exclusion>
+                        <groupId>javax.activation</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>activation-api</artifactId>
+                    </exclusion>
+                    <exclusion>
+                        <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
+                    </exclusion>
                 </exclusions>
-                <version>${tika.version}</version>
             </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
diff --git a/extensions/tika/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/tika/deployment/TikaProcessor.java b/extensions/tika/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/tika/deployment/TikaProcessor.java
index 7ddfd2af4cbd9..3c9e19e25e4b1 100644
--- a/extensions/tika/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/tika/deployment/TikaProcessor.java
+++ b/extensions/tika/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/tika/deployment/TikaProcessor.java
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ public void registerTikaParsersResources(BuildProducer<NativeImageResourceBuildI
 
     @BuildStep
     public void registerPdfBoxResources(BuildProducer<NativeImageResourceDirectoryBuildItem> resource) {
+        resource.produce(new NativeImageResourceDirectoryBuildItem("org/apache/pdfbox/resources/afm"));
         resource.produce(new NativeImageResourceDirectoryBuildItem("org/apache/pdfbox/resources/glyphlist"));
         resource.produce(new NativeImageResourceDirectoryBuildItem("org/apache/fontbox/cmap"));
         resource.produce(new NativeImageResourceDirectoryBuildItem("org/apache/fontbox/unicode"));
diff --git a/extensions/tika/deployment/src/test/java/io/quarkus/tika/deployment/TikaProcessorTest.java b/extensions/tika/deployment/src/test/java/io/quarkus/tika/deployment/TikaProcessorTest.java
index 7be30fd56126c..46336f91a5c21 100644
--- a/extensions/tika/deployment/src/test/java/io/quarkus/tika/deployment/TikaProcessorTest.java
+++ b/extensions/tika/deployment/src/test/java/io/quarkus/tika/deployment/TikaProcessorTest.java
@@ -78,13 +78,13 @@ public void testUnresolvableCustomAbbreviation() throws Exception {
 
     @Test
     public void testAllSupportedParserNames() throws Exception {
-        assertEquals(72, getParserNames(null, null).size());
+        assertEquals(77, getParserNames(null, null).size());
     }
 
     @Test
     public void testSupportedParserNamesWithTikaConfigPath() throws Exception {
         Set<String> names = getParserNames("tika-config.xml", "pdf");
-        assertEquals(72, names.size());
+        assertEquals(77, names.size());
     }
 
     @Test