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Michele Balistreri commented on PDFBOX-2402: -------------------------------------------- If reading is not needed, then is ok. I did the read only to skip the spurious bytes and eventually find the "endobj" tag. If this is not required for correct functioning, it can be as well be omitted. > NonSequentialPDFParser cannot recover from spurious closing brackets > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: PDFBOX-2402 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2402 > Project: PDFBox > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Parsing > Affects Versions: 2.0.0 > Reporter: Michele Balistreri > Assignee: Tilman Hausherr > Fix For: 2.0.0 > > Attachments: NonSequentialPDFParser.patch, file screenshot.png > > > The NonSequentialPDFParser fails if an object has a spurious closing tag (for > example, a PDFArray with two closing brackets). In lenient mode, it would be > good to at least attempt recovering from that. The attached patch, instead of > throwing an exception in case the endObject string is not "endobj" or " obj", > skips a character (the spurious character) and tries reading a string. It > continues until either the file ends or an "endobj" is found. > I have a document where this worked but I am not allowed to upload it, > unfortunately. In any case the patch cannot make things worse, since it > replaces throwing an exception with at least attempting to recover from it. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)