[PDFBOX-2678] possible NPE in ExtractText tool of trunk

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.8, 1.8.9, 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.9, 2.0.0
• Component/s: Text extraction
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: nullpointer
• Created: 11/Feb/15 17:46
• Updated: 28/Mar/15 14:10
• Resolved: 11/Feb/15 18:07

Description

With some PDFs an NPE is thrown.
Here's the patch for it (referring to trunk):

Index: tools/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/tools/ExtractText.java
===================================================================
--- tools/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/tools/ExtractText.java	(Revision 1658905)
+++ tools/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/tools/ExtractText.java	(Working Copy)
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@
                                 }
                                 PDComplexFileSpecification spec = (PDComplexFileSpecification) ent.getValue();
                                 PDEmbeddedFile file = spec.getEmbeddedFile();
-                                if (file != null && file.getSubtype().equals("application/pdf"))
+                                if (file != null && file.getSubtype() != null && file.getSubtype().equals("application/pdf"))
                                 {
                                     if (debug)
                                     {