[JCR-1567] Upgrade to PDFBox 0.7.3

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.5
• Component/s: indexing, jackrabbit-text-extractors
• Environment: Tomcat 6; JDK 1.6; Windows 2003
• Assignee: Jukka Zitting
• Reporter: Julio Castillo
• Created: 01/May/08 19:27
• Updated: 08/Dec/08 11:08
• Resolved: 30/May/08 15:14

Description

while trying to upload a PDF document (which I can view fine with Acrobat Reader once it is loaded) I get the following exception:

01.05.2008 12:24:44 *WARN * PdfTextExtractor: Failed to extract PDF text content (PdfTextExtractor.java, line 91)
java.io.IOException: Error: Expected an integer type, actual='%%EOF'
at org.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser.readInt(BaseParser.java:1159)
at org.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser.parseObject(PDFParser.java:349)
at org.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser.parse(PDFParser.java:132)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.extractor.PdfTextExtractor.extractText(PdfTextExtractor.java:69)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.extractor.CompositeTextExtractor.extractText(CompositeTextExtractor.java:90)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.query.lucene.JackrabbitTextExtractor.extractText(JackrabbitTextExtractor.java:195)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.core.query.lucene.NodeIndexer.addBinaryValue(NodeIndexer.java:393)
....

I replaced the version of pdfbox (0.6.4) that is bundled with the jackrabbit war file with a more recent version (0.7.3 and fontbox 01.) and it worked fine. The bundled versions should be upgraded.

On the other hand, this software appears to be inactive. Probably a different package should be selected in the long run, but for now, a simple upgrade will do the trick.