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Tim Allison commented on TIKA-2848: ----------------------------------- Hmmm... I'm able to extract text from both with straight PDFBox ExtractText 2.0.15-rc1 with -Xmx512m, which is actually ok (to me) given that they are each hundreds of pages. I'm also able to extract text with -Xmx512m with tika-app: {{java -jar tika-app-1.21-SNAPSHOT.jar Yearbook...pdf}} on both files. There is quite a bit of garbage collection on the earlier one, but it still parses in under a minute. Tika-app from the commandline streams output, whereas tika-app gui caches the data...perhaps that's the problem? How are you calling Tika in your application? > This file consumes an inordinate amount of memory when parsed by Tika > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: TIKA-2848 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2848 > Project: Tika > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Tim Barrett > Priority: Major > Attachments: Yearbook_1997_r.pdf, Yearbook_2013_s.pdf > > > When this document is parsed by Tika upwards of 4 Gigs of JVM memory is used. > With 5Gigs allocated all of the memory is used and an an inordinate amount of > time is spent garbage collecting. These are quite old PDFs that were created > by a Canon OCR scanner. This can easily be reproduced by using the CLI -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)