[PDFBOX-3952] IllegalArgumentException: root cannot be null for Canon scanned PDFs

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.7, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: Parsing
• Environment: java version "1.8.0_144"
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Johannes Porzelt
• Created: 04/Oct/17 15:37
• Updated: 05/Oct/17 16:33
• Resolved: 05/Oct/17 16:33

Description

We encounter the below exception while trying to process the attached documents.
All issues that produced a similar or same exception seemed to fixed in our version (2.0.7).

PDFs are scans of Canon iR-ADV C5250

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: root cannot be null
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPageTree.<init>(PDPageTree.java:75)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocumentCatalog.getPages(PDDocumentCatalog.java:129)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.getNumberOfPages(PDDocument.java:1398)