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The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents.

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package org.apache.pdfbox.io;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * An interface allowing random access read operations.
 */
public interface RandomAccessRead extends SequentialRead
{

    /**
     * Returns offset of next byte to be returned by a read method.
     * 
     * @return offset of next byte which will be returned with next {@link #read()}
     *         (if no more bytes are left it returns a value >= length of source)
     *         
     * @throws IOException 
     */
    public long getPosition() throws IOException;
    
    /**
     * Seek to a position in the data.
     *
     * @param position The position to seek to.
     * @throws IOException If there is an error while seeking.
     */
    public void seek(long position) throws IOException;

    /**
     * The total number of bytes that are available.
     *
     * @return The number of bytes available.
     *
     * @throws IOException If there is an IO error while determining the
     * length of the data stream.
     */
    public long length() throws IOException;

}