Good evening,

No, I am NOT using tika-server. And uh, I am a bit surprised to hear (read) 
that PDFBox does NOT stream the PDF.
So let’s wait for PDFBox colleagues feedback. Thanks anyway for yours.

christian

From: Tim Allison <talli...@apache.org>
Sent: Donnerstag, 14. November 2019 15:07
To: user@tika.apache.org
Cc: us...@pdfbox.apache.org
Subject: Re: Parsing huge PDF (400Mb, 2700 pages)

CC'ing colleagues on PDFBox...any recommendations?

Sergey's recommendation is great for documents that can be parsed via 
streaming.  However, PDFBox does not currently parse PDFs in a streaming mode.  
It builds the full document tree -- PDFBox colleagues let me know if I'm wrong.

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 5:51 AM Sergey Beryozkin 
<sberyoz...@gmail.com<mailto:sberyoz...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi,
Are you using tika-server ? If yes and you can submit the data using a 
multipart/form-data payload then it may help, CXF (used by tika-server) should 
do the best effort at saving the multipart payloads to the temp locations on 
the disk, and thus minimize the memory requirements

Cheers, Sergey


On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 10:21 AM Ribeaud, Christian (Ext) 
<christian.ribe...@novartis.com<mailto:christian.ribe...@novartis.com>> wrote:
Hi,

My application handles all kind of documents (mainly PDFs). In a very few 
cases, you might expect huge PDFs (< 500MB).

By around 400MB I am hitting the wall, parsing takes ages (although quite fast 
at the beginning). I've tried several ideas but none of them brought the 
desired amelioration.

I have the impression that memory plays a role. I have no more than 3GB (and I 
think this should be enough as we are streaming the document and using event 
based XML parser).

Are they things I should be aware of?

Any hint would be very welcome. Thanks and have a nice day,

christian

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