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+# Fuzzing Corpus for PDF
+This directory contains seed files for fuzzing PDF processing in `cups-filters`.
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+The `minimal.pdf` file is a 3-line valid PDF used as a basic seed to ensure the coverage build does not fail with an empty corpus zip error.
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