diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5ca2d81b..ca9b94fb 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-06-21  Jay Berkenbilt  <ejb@ql.org>
+
+	* libqpdf/QPDF.cc: new processFile method that takes an open FILE*
+	instead of a filename.
+
 2012-06-20  Jay Berkenbilt  <ejb@ql.org>
 
 	* Add new array mutation routines to QPDFObjectHandle.
diff --git a/include/qpdf/QPDF.hh b/include/qpdf/QPDF.hh
index ee9dba87..26f9cdc9 100644
--- a/include/qpdf/QPDF.hh
+++ b/include/qpdf/QPDF.hh
@@ -52,6 +52,14 @@ class QPDF
     QPDF_DLL
     void processFile(char const* filename, char const* password = 0);
 
+    // Parse a PDF from a stdio FILE*.  The FILE must be open in
+    // binary mode and must be seekable.  It may be open read only.
+    // This works exactly like processFile except that the PDF file is
+    // read from an already opened FILE*.  The caller is responsible
+    // for closing the file.
+    QPDF_DLL
+    void processFile(FILE* file, char const* password = 0);
+
     // Parse a PDF file loaded into a memory buffer.  This works
     // exactly like processFile except that the PDF file is in memory
     // instead of on disk.  The description appears in any warning or
@@ -400,6 +408,7 @@ class QPDF
       public:
 	FileInputSource();
 	void setFilename(char const* filename);
+        void setFile(FILE* filep);
 	virtual ~FileInputSource();
 	virtual std::string const& getName() const;
 	virtual off_t tell();
@@ -414,6 +423,7 @@ class QPDF
 
 	void destroy();
 
+        bool close_file;
 	std::string filename;
 	FILE* file;
     };
diff --git a/libqpdf/QPDF.cc b/libqpdf/QPDF.cc
index 7ed00c98..1c47d893 100644
--- a/libqpdf/QPDF.cc
+++ b/libqpdf/QPDF.cc
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ QPDF::InputSource::readLine()
 }
 
 QPDF::FileInputSource::FileInputSource() :
+    close_file(false),
     file(0)
 {
 }
@@ -89,10 +90,21 @@ QPDF::FileInputSource::setFilename(char const* filename)
 {
     destroy();
     this->filename = filename;
+    this->close_file = true;
     this->file = QUtil::fopen_wrapper(std::string("open ") + this->filename,
 				      fopen(this->filename.c_str(), "rb"));
 }
 
+void
+QPDF::FileInputSource::setFile(FILE* f)
+{
+    destroy();
+    this->filename = "stdio FILE";
+    this->close_file = false;
+    this->file = f;
+    this->seek(0, SEEK_SET);
+}
+
 QPDF::FileInputSource::~FileInputSource()
 {
     destroy();
@@ -101,7 +113,7 @@ QPDF::FileInputSource::~FileInputSource()
 void
 QPDF::FileInputSource::destroy()
 {
-    if (this->file)
+    if (this->file && this->close_file)
     {
 	fclose(this->file);
 	this->file = 0;
@@ -316,6 +328,15 @@ QPDF::processFile(char const* filename, char const* password)
     parse(password);
 }
 
+void
+QPDF::processFile(FILE* filep, char const* password)
+{
+    FileInputSource* fi = new FileInputSource();
+    this->file = fi;
+    fi->setFile(filep);
+    parse(password);
+}
+
 void
 QPDF::processMemoryFile(char const* description,
 			char const* buf, size_t length,
diff --git a/qpdf/qpdf.testcov b/qpdf/qpdf.testcov
index 51a5f6aa..8cfe81e4 100644
--- a/qpdf/qpdf.testcov
+++ b/qpdf/qpdf.testcov
@@ -200,3 +200,6 @@ qpdf-c set_info_key to null 0
 qpdf-c set-info-key use existing info 0
 qpdf-c add info to trailer 0
 qpdf-c called qpdf_init_write_memory 0
+exercise processFile(name) 0
+exercise processFile(FILE*) 0
+exercise processMemoryFile 0
diff --git a/qpdf/test_driver.cc b/qpdf/test_driver.cc
index ca2fc698..2dc41b41 100644
--- a/qpdf/test_driver.cc
+++ b/qpdf/test_driver.cc
@@ -60,17 +60,29 @@ void runtest(int n, char const* filename)
 {
     QPDF pdf;
     PointerHolder<char> file_buf;
+    FILE* filep = 0;
     if (n == 0)
     {
 	pdf.setAttemptRecovery(false);
     }
     if (n % 2 == 0)
     {
-	pdf.processFile(filename);
+        if (n % 4 == 0)
+        {
+	    QTC::TC("qpdf", "exercise processFile(name)");
+            pdf.processFile(filename);
+        }
+        else
+        {
+	    QTC::TC("qpdf", "exercise processFile(FILE*)");
+            filep = QUtil::fopen_wrapper(std::string("open ") + filename,
+                                         fopen(filename, "rb"));
+            pdf.processFile(filep);
+        }
     }
     else
     {
-	// Exercise processMemoryFile
+        QTC::TC("qpdf", "exercise processMemoryFile");
 	FILE* f = QUtil::fopen_wrapper(std::string("open ") + filename,
 				       fopen(filename, "rb"));
 	fseek(f, 0, SEEK_END);
@@ -623,6 +635,10 @@ void runtest(int n, char const* filename)
 				 QUtil::int_to_string(n));
     }
 
+    if (filep)
+    {
+        fclose(filep);
+    }
     std::cout << "test " << n << " done" << std::endl;
 }