[jira] [Created] (TIKA-1205) Allow PDFParser to fallback to other parser if there is an exception

["Tim Allison (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Tim Allison created TIKA-1205:
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             Summary: Allow PDFParser to fallback to other parser if there is an exception
                 Key: TIKA-1205
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1205
             Project: Tika
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: parser
            Reporter: Tim Allison
            Assignee: Tim Allison
            Priority: Trivial
             Fix For: 1.5


With TIKA-1201, there is now an option to use PDFBox's NonSequentialPDFParser instead of the traditional parser for parsing PDF files.  Following the description in PDFBOX-1199, it would be useful to allow fallback to the classic parser if NonSequentialPDFParser encounters an IOException.  For the sake of symmetry, I propose a boolean useParserFallbackOnException parameter.  If this parameter is true, and if Tika's PDFParser is using the classic parser, Tika will fall back to the NonSequentialPDFParser if there is an IOException; if this parameter is true and if Tika's PDFParser is using the NonSequentialPDFParser it will fall back to the classic parser if there is an IOException.

Many thanks to Hong-Thai for championing the addition of the added NonSequentialPDFParser capability in TIKA-1201, and many thanks to Timo for PDFBox's NonSequentialPDFParser (PDFBOX-1199)!



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