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[jira] [Created] (TIKA-1462) PDFont consumes all heap space

James Hardwick created TIKA-1462:
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             Summary: PDFont consumes all heap space
                 Key: TIKA-1462
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1462
             Project: Tika
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: parser
    Affects Versions: 1.6
            Reporter: James Hardwick
            Priority: Critical


See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2200 for more details.

In short, PDFont will not release resources, and will eventually amass enough objects to consume all available memory. We are encountering this in productions environments, causing our solr server to crash when ingesting large amounts of PDF documents. 

The fix is supposedly in for the 2.0.0 release of PDFBox, but that version has been outstanding for so long that I'd suggest implementing the workaround as proposed in the PDFBox issue. 



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