diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/rnewson/couchdb/lucene/Tika.java b/src/main/java/com/github/rnewson/couchdb/lucene/Tika.java
index adeb06f0..e59b3f80 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/github/rnewson/couchdb/lucene/Tika.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/rnewson/couchdb/lucene/Tika.java
@@ -20,12 +20,11 @@
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.Reader;
 
-import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.log4j.LogManager;
 import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
 import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
+import org.apache.tika.exception.TikaException;
 import org.apache.tika.metadata.DublinCore;
 import org.apache.tika.metadata.HttpHeaders;
 import org.apache.tika.metadata.Metadata;
@@ -47,23 +46,18 @@ public void parse(final InputStream in, final String contentType, final String f
             throws IOException {
         final Metadata md = new Metadata();
         md.set(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_TYPE, contentType);
-        final Reader reader = tika.parse(in, md);
 
-        final String body;
         try {
-            try {
-                body = IOUtils.toString(reader);
-            } finally {
-                reader.close();
-            }
+            // Add body text.
+            doc.add(text(fieldName, tika.parseToString(in, md), false));
         } catch (final IOException e) {
             log.warn("Failed to index an attachment.", e);
             return;
+        } catch (final TikaException e) {
+            log.warn("Failed to parse an attachment.", e);
+            return;
         }
 
-        // Add body text.
-        doc.add(text(fieldName, body, false));
-
         // Add DC attributes.
         addDublinCoreAttributes(md, doc);
     }
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/rnewson/couchdb/rhino/RhinoDocument.java b/src/main/java/com/github/rnewson/couchdb/rhino/RhinoDocument.java
index 0fe6ad23..037ef792 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/github/rnewson/couchdb/rhino/RhinoDocument.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/rnewson/couchdb/rhino/RhinoDocument.java
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ public static void jsFunction_add(final Context cx, final Scriptable thisObj, fi
         if (args[0] == null) {
             throw Context.reportRuntimeError("first argument must be non-null.");
         }
-        
+
         if (args[0] instanceof Undefined) {
             // Ignore
             return;
@@ -186,12 +186,7 @@ private void addAttachment(final RhinoAttachment attachment, final String id, fi
 
             public Void handleResponse(final HttpResponse response) throws ClientProtocolException, IOException {
                 final HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
-                final InputStream in = entity.getContent();
-                try {
-                    Tika.INSTANCE.parse(in, entity.getContentType().getValue(), attachment.fieldName, out);
-                } finally {
-                    in.close();
-                }
+                Tika.INSTANCE.parse(entity.getContent(), entity.getContentType().getValue(), attachment.fieldName, out);
                 return null;
             }
         };