[PDFBOX-3887] Getting a "DataFormatException: invalid distance too far back" exception for the attached file

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.7
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.8, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: Text extraction
• Labels: extraction parsing
• Environment: Windows 10 64-bit, Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit. ; ; java version "1.8.0_141" ; Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_141-b15) ; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.141-b15, mixed mode)
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Harun Reşit Zafer
• Created: 03/Aug/17 19:39
• Updated: 02/Nov/17 21:00
• Resolved: 04/Aug/17 15:10

Description

PdfBox throws the following exception:

Caused by: java.io.IOException: java.util.zip.DataFormatException: invalid distance too far back
	at org.apache.pdfbox.filter.FlateFilter.decode(FlateFilter.java:82)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSInputStream.create(COSInputStream.java:69)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSStream.createInputStream(COSStream.java:162)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFObjectStreamParser.<init>(PDFObjectStreamParser.java:55)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.COSParser.parseObjectStream(COSParser.java:847)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.COSParser.parseObjectDynamically(COSParser.java:753)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.COSParser.parseObjectDynamically(COSParser.java:678)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.COSParser.parseDictObjects(COSParser.java:638)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser.initialParse(PDFParser.java:236)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser.parse(PDFParser.java:271)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:984)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:940)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:888)
	at com.diligen.parser.pdf.PdfBoxHelper.getDocumentWithLineSegments(PdfBoxHelper.java:131)
	... 7 more
Caused by: java.util.zip.DataFormatException: invalid distance too far back
	at java.util.zip.Inflater.inflateBytes(Native Method)
	at java.util.zip.Inflater.inflate(Inflater.java:259)
	at java.util.zip.Inflater.inflate(Inflater.java:280)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.filter.FlateFilter.decompress(FlateFilter.java:107)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.filter.FlateFilter.decode(FlateFilter.java:73)
	... 20 more

If there is no quick solution for this bug, is there a workaround? Can I somehow catch the exception and take some action?