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Nick Burch commented on TIKA-2450:
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In Windows, right click on a folder, New then Word Document. That will create a
0-byte file with a .doc (or .docx) extension.
Many users do feel that that is a "empty or new Word Document". (This is based
on the bug reports and support requests received to Apache POI from people who
are surprised that POI can't then open "the new file")
> OfficeParser.parse called for zero-byte file with .doc extension
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> Key: TIKA-2450
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2450
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: detector, parser
> Affects Versions: 1.16
> Reporter: Matthew Caruana Galizia
> Priority: Minor
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> A zero-byte (empty) file with a .doc extension is detected as a Word Document
> and the {{OfficeParser.parse}} method is called for this file.
> We then get a {{TikaException}}, with the cause given as an
> {{org.apache.poi.EmptyFileException}}.
> I think it would be more useful if the file were NOT detected as a Word
> Document, meaning that the {{AutoDetectParser}} would then fall back to
> whatever is set as the fallback parser in the parse context.
> This is more useful because the user can then trigger some special logic for
> handling empty files.
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