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Tim Allison commented on PDFBOX-5415:
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An answer on the Tika side. Yes, parsing is dangerous and you’ll need to
isolate at the process level; thread level isolation is not enough. See what we
offer in Tika for robustness:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/plugins/servlet/mobile?contentId=148647830#content/view/148647830
> Infinite loop in ExtractText in 2.x branch on a specific pdf
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> Key: PDFBOX-5415
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5415
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Parsing
> Affects Versions: 2.0.26
> Reporter: Tim Allison
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: PDFBOX-5415-TIKA-3718-p10.pdf
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> [~DavidAvant] reported an infinite loop in Tika and provided an example file.
> I can reproduce this with the latest PDFBox app 2.0.26-SNAPSHOT's
> ExtractText.
> File: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/13042292/map.pdf
> Adobe and a slightly out of date pdftotext also have problems with this file.
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