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Tim Allison commented on TIKA-1205: ----------------------------------- Thank you for your feedback! TIKA-456 is the existing issue for general timeout capability. I agree that it would be great to add. TIKA-1205 is a very narrowly defined improvement for PDFParser. > 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 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)! -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159)