Solves #2491 and #2573
Separate length check and then simplify regex to match any number of valid characters and 0 to 2 = on the end. Length check will ensure the {4} grouping is no longer necessary.

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• PR contains only changes related; no stray files, etc.
• README updated (where applicable)
• Tests written (where applicable)
• References provided in PR (where applicable)

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Who is able to provide additional approvals and get this published? We've got production issues as a result of this. Need to decide whether we downgrade or hold out.

Also here with same issue on production. Currently using in nestjs class-validator library, which depends on this library. This a big problem for some partners, which send large documents. Here is an example:
example_fail.pdf
base64.txt

@rubiin are you able to review this soon? After merging this I want to get another release out

Thanks for your effort resolving this issue. Hope it gets released soon 🙏