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F Seid commented on TIKA-1512: ------------------------------ Seems i (still) have this or a very similar Problem (to TIKA-109). On some Word files i get an java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException. I get this errors a lot since tika 1.5 (1.4 was ok) up to snapshots of 1.7 and 1.8. Can somebody help? Exception in thread "main" org.apache.tika.exception.TikaException: Unexpected RuntimeException from org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.OfficeParser@522fca87 at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:258) at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:256) at org.apache.tika.parser.AutoDetectParser.parse(AutoDetectParser.java:120) at org.apache.tika.cli.TikaCLI$OutputType.process(TikaCLI.java:146) at org.apache.tika.cli.TikaCLI.process(TikaCLI.java:440) at org.apache.tika.cli.TikaCLI.main(TikaCLI.java:116) Caused by: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1 at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1911) at org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.WordExtractor.handleSpecialCharacterRuns(WordExtractor.java:407) at org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.WordExtractor.handleParagraph(WordExtractor.java:256) at org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.WordExtractor.handleParagraph(WordExtractor.java:196) at org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.WordExtractor.parse(WordExtractor.java:105) at org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.OfficeParser.parse(OfficeParser.java:201) at org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.OfficeParser.parse(OfficeParser.java:172) at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:256) > WordParser fails on many Word files > ----------------------------------- > > Key: TIKA-1512 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1512 > Project: Tika > Issue Type: Bug > Components: parser > Affects Versions: 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 > Environment: Linux 64bit > OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.4.4) (suse-24.13.5-x86_64) > OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.45-b08, mixed mode) > and > java version "1.6.0" > Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment > IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 Linux amd64-64 (JIT enabled, AOT > enabled) > Reporter: F Seid > Assignee: Jukka Zitting > > WordParser fail on some word files. A negative value is sent to substring -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)