Hi, I ran into this issue with PDFBox 3.0.8 as well.
The byte sequence 5C 29 0A 3E appears in a literal string in the /ID array of an xref stream. PDFBox fails to parse the xref stream, and I can't read the Info metadata. I've attached a small reproducer using synthetic PDFs. The literal-string version fails, while the hex-string version with identical bytes works. To run the reproducer, place all three files in the same directory along with pdfbox-app-3.0.8.jar, then run: ``` java --class-path pdfbox-app-3.0.8.jar Reproduce.java ``` Has there been any progress on PDFBOX-6167? Is there a workaround on the PDFBox side? Thanks, Hyoga On 2026/02/17 15:18:10 Tilman Hausherr wrote: > Thank you, I've created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-6167 > > Tilman >
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