Solr ExtractingRequestHandler giving empty content for pdf documents

Question

I am using ExtractingRequestHandler in Solr for getting document content and index it. It works fine for all Microsoft Documents, but for PDFs, the content being extracted is empty. I have also tried the extractOnly=true with curl, and that also returns just the empty body.

I have used TIKA independently on the same documents and that extracts content just fine. The difference is when doing independently I am using BodyContentHander that comes with Tika instead of SolrContentHandler which is used by Solr. Has anybody seen this?

I would really rather let Solr handle it than me using Tika to extract content outside of Solr.