diff --git tika-parsers/pom.xml tika-parsers/pom.xml
index 19244d0..5a84d16 100644
--- tika-parsers/pom.xml
+++ tika-parsers/pom.xml
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-compress</artifactId>
-      <version>1.4.1</version>
+      <version>1.5</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
diff --git tika-parsers/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/parser/pkg/CompressorParser.java tika-parsers/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/parser/pkg/CompressorParser.java
index 59eeae9..a5921cd 100644
--- tika-parsers/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/parser/pkg/CompressorParser.java
+++ tika-parsers/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/parser/pkg/CompressorParser.java
@@ -93,6 +93,13 @@ public class CompressorParser extends AbstractParser {
         CompressorInputStream cis;
         try {
             CompressorStreamFactory factory = new CompressorStreamFactory();
+            CompressorParserOptions options =
+                 context.get(CompressorParserOptions.class, new CompressorParserOptions() {
+                     public boolean decompressConcatenated(Metadata metadata) {
+                         return false;
+                     }
+                 });
+            factory.setDecompressConcatenated(options.decompressConcatenated(metadata));
             cis = factory.createCompressorInputStream(stream);
         } catch (CompressorException e) {
             throw new TikaException("Unable to uncompress document stream", e);
diff --git tika-parsers/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/parser/pkg/CompressorParserOptions.java tika-parsers/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/parser/pkg/CompressorParserOptions.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..16d9e53
--- /dev/null
+++ tika-parsers/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/parser/pkg/CompressorParserOptions.java
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.tika.parser.pkg;
+
+import org.apache.tika.metadata.Metadata;
+
+/**
+ * Interface for setting options for the {@link CompressorParser} by passing
+ * via the {@link ParseContext}.
+ */
+public interface CompressorParserOptions {
+
+    /**
+     * @param metadata document metadata
+     * @return whether to decompress concatenated streams or not
+     */
+    boolean decompressConcatenated(Metadata metadata);
+}