diff --git a/document-readers/tika-reader/pom.xml b/document-readers/tika-reader/pom.xml
index fe024431e36..ff7f0f388ca 100644
--- a/document-readers/tika-reader/pom.xml
+++ b/document-readers/tika-reader/pom.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,12 @@
 			<groupId>org.apache.tika</groupId>
 			<artifactId>tika-parsers-standard-package</artifactId>
 			<version>${tika.version}</version>
+			<exclusions>
+				<exclusion>
+					<groupId>xml-apis</groupId>
+					<artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>
+				</exclusion>
+			</exclusions>
 		</dependency>
 
 
diff --git a/models/spring-ai-transformers/src/main/java/org/springframework/ai/transformers/TransformersEmbeddingModel.java b/models/spring-ai-transformers/src/main/java/org/springframework/ai/transformers/TransformersEmbeddingModel.java
index 1f6e1b9173c..4544d971cd9 100644
--- a/models/spring-ai-transformers/src/main/java/org/springframework/ai/transformers/TransformersEmbeddingModel.java
+++ b/models/spring-ai-transformers/src/main/java/org/springframework/ai/transformers/TransformersEmbeddingModel.java
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 import org.springframework.ai.embedding.EmbeddingRequest;
 import org.springframework.ai.embedding.EmbeddingResponse;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean;
+import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
 import org.springframework.core.io.DefaultResourceLoader;
 import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
 import org.springframework.util.Assert;
@@ -61,11 +62,11 @@ public class TransformersEmbeddingModel extends AbstractEmbeddingModel implement
 	private static final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(TransformersEmbeddingModel.class);
 
 	// ONNX tokenizer for the all-MiniLM-L6-v2 generative
-	public final static String DEFAULT_ONNX_TOKENIZER_URI = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spring-projects/spring-ai/main/models/spring-ai-transformers/src/main/resources/onnx/all-MiniLM-L6-v2/tokenizer.json";
+	public final static String DEFAULT_ONNX_TOKENIZER_URI = "classpath:onnx/all-MiniLM-L6-v2/tokenizer.json";
 
 	// ONNX generative for all-MiniLM-L6-v2 pre-trained transformer:
 	// https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2
-	public final static String DEFAULT_ONNX_MODEL_URI = "https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ai/raw/main/models/spring-ai-transformers/src/main/resources/onnx/all-MiniLM-L6-v2/model.onnx";
+	public final static String DEFAULT_ONNX_MODEL_URI = "classpath:onnx/all-MiniLM-L6-v2/model.onnx";
 
 	public final static String DEFAULT_MODEL_OUTPUT_NAME = "last_hidden_state";
 
@@ -354,6 +355,9 @@ private List<Double> toDoubleList(float[] floats) {
 	}
 
 	private static Resource toResource(String uri) {
+		if (uri.startsWith("classpath:")) {
+			return new ClassPathResource(uri.substring("classpath:".length()));
+		}
 		return new DefaultResourceLoader().getResource(uri);
 	}