[TIKA-1092] Parsing of old Word file causes a TikaException

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5
• Component/s: parser
• Labels: office parse word-exception
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Giuseppe Totaro
• Created: 12/Mar/13 00:19
• Updated: 25/Mar/14 16:21
• Resolved: 01/Sep/13 18:43

Description

I found an issue with the parse method of org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.OfficeParser. This parser generates a Tika Exception when it try to parse very old file of Microsoft Word.

I think this issue is not a priority because the files that cause the exception belong to an obsolete format/structure that even new Microsoft Office versions don't support them, but it's important to know that something wrong about these outdated types can happen.

I report two links about old types (Microsoft support perspective):
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=922850
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922849/it

For example, the message of TikaException is below:

Exception in thread "main" org.apache.tika.exception.TikaException: TIKA-198: Illegal IOException from org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.OfficeParser@789ab21d
at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:248)
at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:242)
at org.apache.tika.parser.AutoDetectParser.parse(AutoDetectParser.java:120)
at org.apache.tika.cli.TikaCLI$OutputType.process(TikaCLI.java:139)
at org.apache.tika.cli.TikaCLI.process(TikaCLI.java:415)
at org.apache.tika.cli.TikaCLI.main(TikaCLI.java:109)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Invalid header signature; read 0x0410401F002DA5DB, expected 0xE11AB1A1E011CFD0
at org.apache.poi.poifs.storage.HeaderBlock.<init>(HeaderBlock.java:140)
at org.apache.poi.poifs.storage.HeaderBlock.<init>(HeaderBlock.java:115)
at org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.NPOIFSFileSystem.<init>(NPOIFSFileSystem.java:198)
at org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.NPOIFSFileSystem.<init>(NPOIFSFileSystem.java:184)
at org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.OfficeParser.parse(OfficeParser.java:156)
at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:242)
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