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Tim Allison commented on TIKA-1912:
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Overall, I see two options:
1. Improve PDFBox 2.0.x's handling of truncated files.
2. Shade 1.8.x and use that as a backoff parser.
As [~jahewson] pointed out, it would be far better to improve PDFBox 2.0.0's
handling of truncated files, and I agree. On this
[thread|http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/pdfbox-dev/201603.mbox/%3C56F9466D.90305%40lehmi.de%3E],
it looked like there may be some willingness on the PDFBox team to work on
this.
For the second option, I've set up a standalone project on github that shades
PDFBox 1.8.11 [here|https://github.com/tballison/tika-addons], and uses Tika's
last pre-2.0.0 PDFParser. It was mildly tricky because TextStripper loads
classes from a .properties file that wasn't automatically shaded...I'm sure
there is a more elegant solution than I what I did...advice is welcomed!
> Figure out how to parse truncated PDFs that were handled by PDFBox 1.8.x but
> not by 2.0.0
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> Key: TIKA-1912
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1912
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Tim Allison
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> While working on TIKA-1285, we found that PDFBox 2.0.0 is not able to handle
> truncated files as well as PDFBox 1.8.11. Let's figure out how to gain the
> benefits from 2.0.0 without losing the ability to extract some content from
> truncated files.
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