[jira] Reopened: (PDFBOX-895) Infinite recursion when trying to extract text from specific types of PDFs

["Andreas Lehmkühler (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-895?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Andreas Lehmkühler reopened PDFBOX-895:
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Reopened because of reopening PDFBOX-956

> Infinite recursion when trying to extract text from specific types of PDFs
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>                 Key: PDFBOX-895
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-895
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Text extraction
>    Affects Versions: 1.3.1
>            Reporter: Panayiotis Vlissidis
>            Assignee: Andreas Lehmkühler
>            Priority: Critical
>         Attachments: test.pdf
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> Hello and thanks for PDFBox.
> We just started using PDFBox for text extraction(through Tika) 
> and it fails to finish text extraction falling in an infinite loop
> and never returning the text.
> Please note that this happens only for a specific type of PDF
> documents(used for hand writing recognition) such as the one attached. 
> Not sure if this is a bug of PDFBox or due to the nature of the PDFs,
> but I think that PDFBox should at least break out if extraction is not possible.
> I wish I could give you more information but I know nothing about PDF format, parsing, etc. 
> Please let me know if you need any information or my help in any way.
> Thanks a lot for your time.

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