[PDFBOX-3553] IOException "Expected root dictionary, but got this: COSInt{971}" on a valid PDF

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.3
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.21, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: Parsing
• Environment: Windows 7 x64, JVM 1.8.0_101
• Assignee: Andreas Lehmkühler
• Reporter: Seva Alekseyev
• Created: 03/Nov/16 14:49
• Updated: 09/Jul/23 11:33
• Resolved: 09/Jul/23 11:33

Description

On the attached PDF document, which opens fine with Adobe Reader, the PDDocument.load() method throws the following error:

java.io.IOException: Expected root dictionary, but got this: COSInt

{971}

at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser.initialParse(PDFParser.java:206)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser.parse(PDFParser.java:252)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:957)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:913)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:861)