[TIKA-1085] PDF header and mime detection

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3
• Fix Version/s: 1.9, 1.10
• Component/s: mime
• Labels: detection header mime pdf
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Marco Quaranta
• Created: 15/Feb/13 10:47
• Updated: 29/Sep/15 13:46
• Resolved: 29/Sep/15 13:46

Description

I've found some PDF files Tika recognizes as application/octet-stream.
These files differs from regularly identified PDF having a different header: the %PDF-N.n string isn't at the beginning (zero offset) of the file but in the first 1024 bytes.

PDF reference states that "The first line of a PDF file shall be a header consisting of the 5 characters %PDF– followed by a version
number of the form 1.N, where N is a digit between 0 and 7" (http://tinyurl.com/8vnzm3c "p. 7.5.2 File Header").

Looking further at implementation notes by Adobe (http://tinyurl.com/cbqpb24 p. 3.4.1 File Header) I've discover that: "Acrobat viewers require only that the header appear somewhere within the first 1024 bytes of the file"
What do you think about a PDF magic match with an offset 0:1024?

<match value="%PDF-" type="string" offset="0:1024"/>

Thank you,
Marco

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: TIKA-1245 Incorrect MIME type detection
• relates to: TIKA-1644 Mime type diffs between 1.8 and 1.9-rc1