PDFBox does not 'stumble' when it gives that message, that is correct functionality if that permission is not allowed.
If your company is willing to pay a 'fortune' why not sponsor a change to an open source project for half a fortune. Ben http://www.pdfbox.org On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > PDFbox stumbles also with "class java.io.IOException with message: - You > do not have permission to extract text" in case the doc is copy/print > protected. > I tested now the snowtide commercial product and it looks like it could > process these files as well. Performance was also not so bad. Unfortunatly > the test result could not be considered as 100%, because the free version > processed just first 8 pages. After all this product costs a fortune > (as long the company is ready to pay I don't realy mind:)) > > J. > > > > > > Robert Newson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: news <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 24.10.2004 17:44 > Please respond to "Lucene Users List" > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: (bcc: Iouli Golovatyi/X/GP/Novartis) > Subject: Re: Need advice: what pdf lib to use? > Category: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I need a piece of advice/experience.. > > > > What pdf parser (written in java) u'd recommend? > > > > I played now with PDFBox-0.6.7a and would not say I was satisfied too > much > > with it > > > > On certain pdf's (not well formated but anyway readable with acrobate) > it > > run into dead loop (this I could fix in code), > > and on one file it produced "out of memory error" and killed jvm:( (this > > > problem I could not identify yet) > > > > After all the performance was not too great as well: it took c. 19 h. to > > > index 13000 files (c. 3.5Gb) > > > > Regards, > > J. > > > > > > > > On the specific problem of the "dead loop", I reported an instance of > this to Ben a week or so ago and he has fixed it in the latest > nightlies. I expect an official release will include this bugfix soon. > The file in question was unreadable with any PDF software I have, but > someone managed to create it somehow... > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1037145&group_id=78314&atid=552832 > > I've found pdfbox to be pretty good. The only time I get problems is > with corrupted or egregiously bad PDF files. > > B. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
