diff --git a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/action/executer/TransformActionExecuterTest.java b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/action/executer/TransformActionExecuterTest.java
index 11cc4d0c97..50d013943d 100644
--- a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/action/executer/TransformActionExecuterTest.java
+++ b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/action/executer/TransformActionExecuterTest.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import java.util.Map;
 
 import org.alfresco.repo.content.MimetypeMap;
 import org.alfresco.repo.content.encoding.ContentCharsetFinder;
+import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentReader;
 import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.MimetypeService;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
@@ -106,4 +107,5 @@ class DummyMimetypeService implements MimetypeService
     public Map<String, String> getMimetypesByExtension()  { return null; }
     public String guessMimetype(String filename)          { return null; }
     public boolean isText(String mimetype)                { return false;}
+    public String getMimetypeIfNotMatches(ContentReader reader) { return null; }
 }
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diff --git a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/metadata/AbstractMappingMetadataExtracter.java b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/metadata/AbstractMappingMetadataExtracter.java
index 9e8c7a71b9..8dcb9c1672 100644
--- a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/metadata/AbstractMappingMetadataExtracter.java
+++ b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/metadata/AbstractMappingMetadataExtracter.java
@@ -660,12 +660,24 @@ abstract public class AbstractMappingMetadataExtracter implements MetadataExtrac
         }
         catch (Throwable e)
         {
+            // Ask Tika to detect the document, and report back on if
+            //  the current mime type is plausible
+            String typeErrorMessage = null;
+            String differentType = mimetypeService.getMimetypeIfNotMatches(reader.getReader());
+            if(differentType != null)
+            {
+               typeErrorMessage = "\n" +
+                  "   claimed mime type: " + reader.getMimetype() + "\n" +
+                  "   detected mime type: " + differentType;
+            }
+           
             if (logger.isDebugEnabled())
             {
                 logger.debug(
                         "Metadata extraction failed: \n" +
                         "   Extracter: " + this + "\n" +
-                        "   Content:   " + reader,
+                        "   Content:   " + reader +
+                        typeErrorMessage,
                         e);
             }
             else
@@ -674,7 +686,8 @@ abstract public class AbstractMappingMetadataExtracter implements MetadataExtrac
                         "Metadata extraction failed (turn on DEBUG for full error): \n" +
                         "   Extracter: " + this + "\n" +
                         "   Content:   " + reader + "\n" +
-                        "   Failure:   " + e.getMessage());
+                        "   Failure:   " + e.getMessage() +
+                        typeErrorMessage);
             }
         }
         finally
diff --git a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/AbstractContentTransformer2.java b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/AbstractContentTransformer2.java
index 506099f6c7..d5a65121d2 100644
--- a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/AbstractContentTransformer2.java
+++ b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/AbstractContentTransformer2.java
@@ -27,9 +27,6 @@ import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentWriter;
 import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.TransformationOptions;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
-import org.apache.tika.config.TikaConfig;
-import org.apache.tika.metadata.Metadata;
-import org.apache.tika.mime.MediaType;
 
 /**
  * Provides basic services for {@link org.alfresco.repo.content.transform.ContentTransformer}
@@ -49,8 +46,6 @@ public abstract class AbstractContentTransformer2 extends ContentTransformerHelp
     private double averageTime = 0.0;
     private long count = 0L;
     
-    private TikaConfig tikaConfig;
-    
     /**
      * All transformers start with an average transformation time of 0.0ms.
      */
@@ -174,7 +169,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractContentTransformer2 extends ContentTransformerHelp
             
             // Ask Tika to detect the document, and report back on if
             //  the current mime type is plausible
-            String differentType = checkMimeTypeMatches(reader.getReader());
+            String differentType = getMimetypeService().getMimetypeIfNotMatches(reader.getReader());
     
             // Report the error
             if(differentType == null)
@@ -269,54 +264,4 @@ public abstract class AbstractContentTransformer2 extends ContentTransformerHelp
         double diffTime = ((double) transformationTime) - averageTime;
         averageTime += diffTime / (double) count;
     }
-    
-    /**
-     * Use Apache Tika to check if the mime type of the document really matches
-     *  what it claims to be.
-     * This is typically used when a transformation fails, and you want to know
-     *  if someone has renamed a file and consequently it has the wrong mime type. 
-     * @return Null if the mime type seems ok, otherwise the mime type it probably is
-     */
-    protected String checkMimeTypeMatches(ContentReader reader)
-    {
-       if(tikaConfig == null)
-       {
-          try {
-             tikaConfig = TikaConfig.getDefaultConfig();
-          } catch(Exception e) {
-             logger.warn("Error creating Tika detector", e);
-             return null;
-          }
-       }
-       
-       Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
-       MediaType type;
-       try {
-          type = tikaConfig.getMimeRepository().detect(
-                reader.getContentInputStream(), metadata
-          );
-          logger.debug(reader + " detected by Tika as being " + type.toString());
-       } catch(Exception e) {
-          logger.warn("Error identifying content type of problem document", e);
-          return null;
-       }
-       
-       // Is it a good match?
-       if(type.toString().equals(reader.getMimetype())) 
-       {
-          return null;
-       }
-       
-       // Is it close?
-       MediaType claimed = MediaType.parse(reader.getMimetype());
-       if(tikaConfig.getMediaTypeRegistry().isSpecializationOf(claimed, type) ||
-          tikaConfig.getMediaTypeRegistry().isSpecializationOf(type, claimed))
-       {
-          // Probably close enough
-          return null;
-       }
-       
-       // If we get here, then most likely the type is wrong
-       return type.toString();
-    }
 }