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Andreas Lehmkühler resolved PDFBOX-1297.
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Resolution: Fixed
Fix Version/s: 1.7.0
Assignee: Andreas Lehmkühler
I applied the in revision 1339245 as proposed with one exception. I removed the
else part about other formats as only pdfs are relevant here.
Thanks for the contribution!
> ExtractText fails to extract text from packaged PDFs
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> Key: PDFBOX-1297
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1297
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Text extraction
> Affects Versions: 1.6.0
> Environment: Fedora 13 Linux
> Reporter: Michael McCandless
> Assignee: Andreas Lehmkühler
> Fix For: 1.7.0
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> Attachments: PDFBOX-1297.patch, PDFPackage.pdf, testPDFPackage.pdf
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>
> Apparently a PDF is able to contain multiple files (like a Zip file); it's
> called
> a PDF Package, described at
> http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Reader/8.0/help.html?content=WSE034CA46-D08F-4fff-AA3C-FF04510DAEF0.html
> I have a simple example PDF Package, containing two sub-PDFs, but ExtractText
> fails to extract their text.
> It does run successfully (no exceptions), but the text it extracts is just
> the boilerplate text
> saying you should upgrade to Adobe Acrobat version 8 or later to view this
> PDF.
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