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Zoltan Toth commented on TIKA-1817:
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Hi there.  I can see that some great progress has been made on this issue.  
Many thanks!  Could someone please let me know when the fix for this issue is 
likely to be released to production?  

> Extracts entire file content for ASCII DXF files
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: TIKA-1817
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1817
>             Project: Tika
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.11
>            Reporter: Zoltan Toth
>         Attachments: SMA-Controller.dxf, house design.dxf, 
> jcsample-screendump.jpg, jcsample.dxf
>
>
> By definition, ASCII DXF files are encoded in plain text.  However. the vast 
> majority of their content is not intended to be human readable (see 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoCAD_DXF).  Unfortunately for these files, 
> Tika simply "extracts" the entire content of the file instead of the 
> human-readable portions (i.e. comments etc.) that a CAD tool would render.  
> This results in massive amounts of rubbish data being returned with dire 
> consequences for applications that rely on this.
> It would be nice if only the human-readable text fields were extracted.  
> Failing this, it would still be nice if no text was extracted from these 
> files at all.  



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