[PDFBOX-4782] PDFLayoutTextStripper(), error on getText() method

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.18
• Component/s: Text extraction
• Labels: extracttext
• Environment: Windows 10 ; Java Version 1.8.0_241
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jaume Xaus
• Created: 20/Feb/20 12:32
• Updated: 20/Feb/20 17:48
• Resolved: 20/Feb/20 17:48

Description

I have this code:   
PDDocument pdDoc = PDDocument.load(file);
PDFTextStripper stripper = new PDFLayoutTextStripper();
string = stripper.getText(pdDoc);

In some PDF documents when execute de getText() method I get this error:
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1
 at java.lang.String.charAt(String.java:658)
 at com.sagedillepasa.gestion.TextLine.isSpaceCharacterAtIndex(PDFLayoutTextStripper.java:269)