Tim Allison created TIKA-1205:
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Summary: Allow PDFParser to fallback to other parser if there is
an exception
Key: TIKA-1205
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1205
Project: Tika
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: parser
Reporter: Tim Allison
Assignee: Tim Allison
Priority: Trivial
Fix For: 1.5
With TIKA-1201, there is now an option to use PDFBox's NonSequentialPDFParser
instead of the traditional parser for parsing PDF files. Following the
description in PDFBOX-1199, it would be useful to allow fallback to the classic
parser if NonSequentialPDFParser encounters an IOException. For the sake of
symmetry, I propose a boolean useParserFallbackOnException parameter. If this
parameter is true, and if Tika's PDFParser is using the classic parser, Tika
will fall back to the NonSequentialPDFParser if there is an IOException; if
this parameter is true and if Tika's PDFParser is using the
NonSequentialPDFParser it will fall back to the classic parser if there is an
IOException.
Many thanks to Hong-Thai for championing the addition of the added
NonSequentialPDFParser capability in TIKA-1201, and many thanks to Timo for
PDFBox's NonSequentialPDFParser (PDFBOX-1199)!
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