[PDFBOX-4006] PDFBox throws NullPointerException when parsing PDF

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.8
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.9
• Component/s: Parsing
• Labels: regression
• Environment: Linux, OpenJDK 8 and Oracle JDK 8
• Assignee: Andreas Lehmkühler
• Reporter: Jay Askren
• Created: 09/Nov/17 18:50
• Updated: 24/Mar/18 09:41
• Resolved: 14/Nov/17 18:23

Description

I have a file that I can open with GhostScript, but PDFBox dies with a NullPointerException when I try to parse it with PDFBox. The error is as follows:

org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.COSParser.parseObjectDynamically(COSParser.java:747) at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.COSParser.parseObjectDynamically(COSParser.java:718) at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.COSParser.getLength(COSParser.java:961) at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.COSParser.parseCOSStream(COSParser.java:1020) at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.COSParser.bfSearchForObjStreams(COSParser.java:1912) at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.COSParser.bfSearchForObjects(COSParser.java:1538) at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.COSParser.rebuildTrailer(COSParser.java:2091) at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.COSParser.retrieveTrailer(COSParser.java:246) at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser.initialParse(PDFParser.java:189) at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser.parse(PDFParser.java:240) at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:1013) at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:969) at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:917) at