Details
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Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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1.6.0
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None
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All platforms affected
Description
We came across PDF files that do not have an offset at the end of the file.
This leads to the following exeption:
c:\tmp> java -jar pdfbox-app-1.6.0.jar ExtractText -endPage 1 "On the Insert tab.pdf"
ExtractText failed with the following exception:
java.io.IOException: Error: Expected an integer type, actual=''
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser.readInt(BaseParser.java:1384)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser.parseStartXref(PDFParser.java:6
63)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser.parseObject(PDFParser.java:464)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser.parse(PDFParser.java:184)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:1088)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:1053)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:978)
at org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText.startExtraction(ExtractText.java:196)
at org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText.main(ExtractText.java:76)
at org.apache.pdfbox.PDFBox.main(PDFBox.java:42)
While these PDFs are non-conforming, it'd be an improvement to allow them to be read and processed.