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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.Closeable;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * An interface allowing sequential read operations.
 */
public interface SequentialRead extends Closeable
{

    /**
     * Read a single byte of data.
     *
     * @return The byte of data that is being read.
     *
     * @throws IOException If there is an error while reading the data.
     */
    int read() throws IOException;

    /**
     * Read a buffer of data.
     *
     * @param b The buffer to write the data to.
     * @return The number of bytes that were actually read.
     * @throws IOException If there was an error while reading the data.
     */
    int read(byte[] b) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Read a buffer of data.
     *
     * @param b The buffer to write the data to.
     * @param offset Offset into the buffer to start writing.
     * @param length The amount of data to attempt to read.
     * @return The number of bytes that were actually read.
     * @throws IOException If there was an error while reading the data.
     */
    int read(byte[] b, int offset, int length) throws IOException;

}