Hi Chris, put in 1.4 an you are fine. In fact PDFBox doesn't take the version number into account.
BR Maruan Sahyoun Am 10.10.2013 um 10:55 schrieb Chris Bamford <[email protected]>: > Hi there, > > I am attempting text extraction with PDFBox 1.8.2. > > For reasons I cannot explain, I am sometimes sent PDFs with no version number > in the header, e.g. > > %PDF-\r\n > > instead of, say > > %PDF-1.7\r\n > > (I have checked, the version number does not appear in the next couple of > lines, either.) > > This causes PDFParser.parseHeader() to die as it attempts to perform a > negative substring offset calculation. My question is: > if I could detect this situation and default it to a really low version > (%PDF-1.0 ?), would it be safe - or would other things break later on? > > Thanks for any help. > > - Chris > >
