[PDFBOX-3556] Error "Error getting header version: %PDF--33" on a valid document

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.3
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.4, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: Parsing
• Environment: Windows 7 x64, JVM 1.8.0_101
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Seva Alekseyev
• Created: 04/Nov/16 20:04
• Updated: 25/Mar/17 18:12
• Resolved: 04/Nov/16 21:27

Description

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

java.io.IOException: Error getting header version: %PDF--33
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.COSParser.parseHeader(COSParser.java:1935)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.COSParser.parsePDFHeader(COSParser.java:1853)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser.parse(PDFParser.java:245)
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)