[TIKA-1457] NullPointerException in tika-app, parsing PDF content

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5
• Fix Version/s: 1.6
• Component/s: parser
• Labels: bug parser solr tika,text-extraction

Environment

OS - Linux Centos 6.5
Web APP - Tomcat6
Using Solr 4.10
Tika Jar

• tika-core-1.5.jar
• tika-parsers-1.5.jar
• tika-xmp-1.5.jar
• pdfbox-1.8.4.jar

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tadeu Alves
• Created: 27/Oct/14 13:59
• Updated: 28/Oct/14 07:50
• Resolved: 27/Oct/14 14:46

Description

When I try to extract text from some pdf files with the tika app 1.5

null:org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: org.apache.tika.exception.TikaException: Unexpected RuntimeException from org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParser@52cfcf01
at org.apache.solr.handler.extraction.ExtractingDocumentLoader.load(ExtractingDocumentLoader.java:225)
at org.apache.solr.handler.ContentStreamHandlerBase.handleRequestBody(ContentStreamHandlerBase.java:74)
at org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:135)
at org.apache.solr.core.RequestHandlers$LazyRequestHandlerWrapper.handleRequest(RequestHandlers.java:246)
at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1967)
at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:777)
at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:418)
at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:207)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:857)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:588)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: org.apache.tika.exception.TikaException: Unexpected RuntimeException from org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParser@52cfcf01
at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:244)
at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:242)
at org.apache.tika.parser.AutoDetectParser.parse(AutoDetectParser.java:120)
at org.apache.solr.handler.extraction.ExtractingDocumentLoader.load(ExtractingDocumentLoader.java:219)
... 19 more
Caused by: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 0
at java.lang.String.charAt(String.java:658)
at org.apache.pdfbox.util.DateConverter.parseDate(DateConverter.java:680)
at org.apache.pdfbox.util.DateConverter.toCalendar(DateConverter.java:808)
at org.apache.pdfbox.util.DateConverter.toCalendar(DateConverter.java:780)
at org.apache.pdfbox.util.DateConverter.toCalendar(DateConverter.java:754)
at org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDictionary.getDate(COSDictionary.java:797)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocumentInformation.getModificationDate(PDDocumentInformation.java:232)
at org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParser.extractMetadata(PDFParser.java:176)
at org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParser.parse(PDFParser.java:142)
at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:242)
... 22 more

Issue Links

• is related to: TIKA-1233 PDFBox can throw StringIndexOutOfBoundsException on some dates