[TIKA-2492] Remove pdfdebugger from tika

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.17, 2.0.0-BETA
• Component/s: packaging
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tilman Hausherr
• Created: 04/Nov/17 18:10
• Updated: 15/Jul/22 04:31
• Resolved: 15/Jul/22 04:31

Description

PDFDebugger isn't needed in tika but it is a dependency in pdfbox-tools (because that one contains the command line interface, which calls the PDFBox command line tools).

Thus I suggest that the tika parser pom be changed like this:

    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.pdfbox</groupId>
      <artifactId>pdfbox-tools</artifactId>
      <version>${pdfbox.version}</version>
      <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
          <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
          <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>org.apache.pdfbox</groupId>
+          <artifactId>pdfbox-debugger</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
      </exclusions>

This saves you 200KB in tika-app. That's not much, but every weight loss counts

It should also be possible to get it removed from tika-bundle, but I don't know how to remove it properly. Just removing it from "Embed-Dependency" isn't enough.

Issue Links

• is related to: TIKA-3818 Remove pdfdebugger from tika (2)