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Maruan Sahyoun commented on PDFBOX-1241:
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For the files you came across is only the %%EOF missing or also the offset.
From my perspective these are issues which need to be dealt with separately.
> Better handle of missing EOF at the end of a file
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: PDFBOX-1241
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1241
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Parsing, Text extraction
> Affects Versions: 1.6.0
> Environment: All platforms affected
> Reporter: Ernst Eibensteiner
> Attachments: On the Insert tab.pdf
>
>
> We came across PDF files that do not have a %%EOF at the end of the file.
> This leads to the following exeption:
> c:\tmp> java -jar pdfbox-app-1.6.0.jar ExtractText -endPage 1 "On the Insert
> tab.pdf"
> ExtractText failed with the following exception:
> java.io.IOException: Error: Expected an integer type, actual=''
> at
> org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser.readInt(BaseParser.java:1384)
> at
> org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser.parseStartXref(PDFParser.java:6
> 63)
> at
> org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser.parseObject(PDFParser.java:464)
> at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser.parse(PDFParser.java:184)
> at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:1088)
> at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:1053)
> at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:978)
> at org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText.startExtraction(ExtractText.java:196)
> at org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText.main(ExtractText.java:76)
> at org.apache.pdfbox.PDFBox.main(PDFBox.java:42)
> While these PDFs are non-conforming, it'd be an improvement to allow them to
> be read and processed.
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