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A conforming parser will start at the end of the file and read backward until it has read the EOF marker, the xref location, and trailer[1]. Once this is read, it will read in the xref table so it can locate other objects and revisions. This also allows skipping objects which have been rendered obsolete (per the xref table)[2]. It also allows the minimum amount of information to be read when the file is loaded, and then subsequent information will be loaded if and when it is requested. This is all laid out in the official PDF specification, ISO 32000-1:2008.
Existing code will be re-used where possible, but this will require new classes in order to accommodate the lazy reading which is a very different paradigm from the existing parser. Using separate classes will also eliminate the possibility of regression bugs from making their way into the PDDocument or BaseParser classes. Changes to existing classes will be kept to a minimum in order to prevent regression bugs.
[1] Section 7.5.5 "Conforming readers should read a PDF file from its end"
[2] Section 7.5.4 "the entire file need not be read to locate any particular object"
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PDFBOX-911 Method PDDocument.getNumberOfPages() returns wrong number of pages
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