diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
index 23c88fd9a..f3805fb6b 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 
     <changes>
         <release version="3.7-SNAPSHOT" date="2010-??-??">
+           <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">49147 - Properly close internal InputStream in ExtractorFactory#createExtractor(File)</action>
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">49138 - Fixed locale-sensitive formatters in PackagePropertiesPart</action>
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">49153 - Ensure that CTVectorVariant is included in poi-ooxml-schemas.jar</action>
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">49146 - Added accessors to CoreProperties.Keywords  </action>
diff --git a/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/extractor/ExtractorFactory.java b/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/extractor/ExtractorFactory.java
index ee3da8c61..6a2379e19 100644
--- a/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/extractor/ExtractorFactory.java
+++ b/src/ooxml/java/org/apache/poi/extractor/ExtractorFactory.java
@@ -119,18 +119,22 @@ public class ExtractorFactory {
    
 	
 	public static POITextExtractor createExtractor(File f) throws IOException, InvalidFormatException, OpenXML4JException, XmlException {
-		InputStream inp = new PushbackInputStream( 
-			new FileInputStream(f), 8);
-		
-		if(POIFSFileSystem.hasPOIFSHeader(inp)) {
-			return createExtractor(new POIFSFileSystem(inp));
-		}
-		if(POIXMLDocument.hasOOXMLHeader(inp)) {
-			inp.close();
-			return createExtractor(OPCPackage.open(f.toString()));
-		}
-		throw new IllegalArgumentException("Your File was neither an OLE2 file, nor an OOXML file");
-	}
+		InputStream inp = null;
+        try {
+            inp = new PushbackInputStream(
+                new FileInputStream(f), 8);
+
+            if(POIFSFileSystem.hasPOIFSHeader(inp)) {
+                return createExtractor(new POIFSFileSystem(inp));
+            }
+            if(POIXMLDocument.hasOOXMLHeader(inp)) {
+                return createExtractor(OPCPackage.open(f.toString()));
+            }
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Your File was neither an OLE2 file, nor an OOXML file");
+        } finally {
+            if(inp != null) inp.close();
+        }
+    }
 	
 	public static POITextExtractor createExtractor(InputStream inp) throws IOException, InvalidFormatException, OpenXML4JException, XmlException {
 		// Figure out the kind of stream