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Hong-Thai Nguyen commented on TIKA-1205:
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Just a (newbie) question, why limit only on PDFParser, not for any other parser
?
I agree that fallback is necessary when having exception. But, the worst case
is infinitive loop happens when parsing a document.
For these two purposes, we would generalize to handle exception and timeout
properly in a wrapper ?
> Allow PDFParser to fallback to other parser if there is an exception
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> 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
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> 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 throws 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 fallback to the NonSequentialPDFParser if there is an IOException;
> if this parameter is true and if Tika's PDFParser is using the
> NonSequentialPDFParser it will fallback 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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