[PDFBOX-5822] IllegalArgumentException: Parameter must be 1-based, but is 0 when using PDFTextStripperByArea

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.32, 3.0.3 PDFBox, 4.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.32, 3.0.3 PDFBox, 4.0.0
• Component/s: Text extraction
• Labels: regression
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Tilman Hausherr
• Created: 17/May/24 09:34
• Updated: 07/Aug/24 14:06
• Resolved: 18/May/24 17:07

Description

As reported by Pascal Schumacher in the users mailing list
https://lists.apache.org/thread/yb42j9s5vp8jsjog9msplbc05y1xqwv3

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Parameter must be 1-based, but is 0
at org.apache.pdfbox.text.PDFTextStripper.setStartPage(PDFTextStripper.java:956)
at org.apache.pdfbox.text.PDFTextStripperByArea.extractRegions(PDFTextStripperByArea.java:117)

this is because of this earlier seemingly "harmless" commit
https://github.com/apache/pdfbox/commit/5c0abf94367c12c9ac0b464046784d456ce4caf5

that broke PDFTextStripperByArea because it has two calls with 0 parameter.

This wasn't discovered because we have no tests for PDFTextStripperByArea 😬

Issue Links

• is related to: TIKA-4296 "Parameter must be 1-based, but is -1" when using Tika with PDFBox 2.0.32