diff --git a/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/tika/deployment/TikaProcessor.java b/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/tika/deployment/TikaProcessor.java
index 1314b67..491595a 100644
--- a/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/tika/deployment/TikaProcessor.java
+++ b/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/tika/deployment/TikaProcessor.java
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package io.quarkus.tika.deployment;
 
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.LinkedList;
@@ -23,11 +24,13 @@
 import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.BuildStep;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.ExecutionTime;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.annotations.Record;
+import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.CombinedIndexBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.FeatureBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.NativeImageEnableAllCharsetsBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.NativeImageFeatureBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.nativeimage.NativeImageResourceBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.nativeimage.NativeImageResourceDirectoryBuildItem;
+import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.nativeimage.ReflectiveClassBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.nativeimage.RuntimeInitializedClassBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.nativeimage.ServiceProviderBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.util.ServiceUtil;
@@ -90,6 +93,16 @@ public void registerTikaCoreResources(BuildProducer<NativeImageResourceBuildItem
         resource.produce(new NativeImageResourceBuildItem("org/apache/tika/parser/external/tika-external-parsers.xml"));
     }
 
+    @BuildStep
+    void registerForReflection(BuildProducer<ReflectiveClassBuildItem> reflectiveClass,
+            CombinedIndexBuildItem combinedIndex) {
+
+        final List<String> classNames = new ArrayList<>();
+        classNames.add(org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParser.class.getName());
+        reflectiveClass.produce(
+                ReflectiveClassBuildItem.builder(classNames.toArray(new String[0])).methods(true).build());
+    }
+
     @BuildStep
     public void registerTikaParsersResources(BuildProducer<NativeImageResourceBuildItem> resource) {
         resource.produce(new NativeImageResourceBuildItem("org/apache/tika/parser/pdf/PDFParser.properties"));