Github user HansBrende commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/any23/pull/56 @jgrzebyta Yes, I had that problem too. Mvn build fails, but that's not related to the classloader problem @lewismc is having (which my comment above should fix--the extractor registry automatically loads classes only via the system classloader, so you have to explicitly register extractors loaded by other means).
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