[PDFBOX-1535] Extract text from PDF cause Nullpointer Exception in PDFStreamEngine.processEncodedText Method

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.0
• Component/s: Text extraction
• Environment: jdk 1.7_17
• Assignee: Andreas Lehmkühler
• Reporter: Alex
• Created: 08/Mar/13 15:38
• Updated: 23/Mar/13 12:56
• Resolved: 09/Mar/13 14:24

Description

The xpdfbin-win-3.03 -> pdftotext.exe works fine with this pdf File.

Tried pdfbox Version 1.2.1 too, but same error.

[org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine] java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processEncodedText(PDFStreamEngine.java:357)
at org.apache.pdfbox.util.operator.ShowTextGlyph.process(ShowTextGlyph.java:62)
at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processOperator(PDFStreamEngine.java:556)
at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processSubStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:270)
at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processSubStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:237)
at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:217)
at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.processPage(PDFTextStripper.java:448)
at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.processPages(PDFTextStripper.java:372)
at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.writeText(PDFTextStripper.java:328)