[PDFBOX-2186] java.io.IOException: Catalog cannot be found

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.6, 1.8.7, 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.7, 2.0.0
• Component/s: Parsing
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Tilman Hausherr
• Created: 04/Jul/14 15:41
• Updated: 19/Sep/14 14:40
• Resolved: 04/Jul/14 15:58

Description

I get this with the attached file:

Jul 04, 2014 5:41:00 PM org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser parseXrefTable
Warnung: invalid xref line: 0000000000 65535    f
Jul 04, 2014 5:41:00 PM org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser parseXrefTable
Warnung: Count in xref table is 0 at offset 334372
Jul 04, 2014 5:41:00 PM org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.NonSequentialPDFParser initi
alParse
Warnung: Expected trailer object at position 334373, keep trying
Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Catalog cannot be found
        at org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDocument.getCatalog(COSDocument.java:522)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.NonSequentialPDFParser.initialParse(NonSe
quentialPDFParser.java:482)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.NonSequentialPDFParser.parse(NonSequentia
lPDFParser.java:757)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.loadNonSeq(PDDocument.java:1157)

        at org.apache.pdfbox.tools.PDFToImage.main(PDFToImage.java:197)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.tools.PDFBox.main(PDFBox.java:89)

The cause is a TAB in an xref line. The solution is to search for a backslash s regex instead of a space only.

I'm not touching the preflight parser (who has the same code line) because I assume that he should not be lenient.

Source of the file:
http://digitalcorpora.org/corp/nps/files/govdocs1/zipfiles/002.zip file 959