[TIKA-2117] NullPointerException on PDF (fixed in PDFBox)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.13
• Fix Version/s: 1.15, 2.0.0
• Component/s: parser

Environment

Windows 7 x64, JVM 1.8.0_101

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Seva Alekseyev
• Created: 14/Oct/16 17:13
• Updated: 12/Apr/21 13:01
• Resolved: 16/Dec/16 17:56

Description

Tika PDF parser emits a NullPointerException on the attached PDF file "TEST_THOR.PDF". The file displays as expected in Acrobat.

The call stack goes:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDFieldFactory.findFieldType(PDFieldFactory.java:113)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDFieldFactory.createField(PDFieldFactory.java:48)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDField.fromDictionary(PDField.java:77)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDNonTerminalField.getChildren(PDNonTerminalField.java:136)
at org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDF2XHTML.processAcroField(PDF2XHTML.java:698)
at org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDF2XHTML.extractAcroForm(PDF2XHTML.java:680)
at org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDF2XHTML.endDocument(PDF2XHTML.java:243)
at org.apache.pdfbox.text.PDFTextStripper.writeText(PDFTextStripper.java:267)
at org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDF2XHTML.process(PDF2XHTML.java:160)
at org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParser.parse(PDFParser.java:144)
at gov.nih.niaid.fscanner.Extract.ExtractContents(Extract.java:62)
at gov.nih.niaid.temp.Main.main(Main.java:69)

Issue Links

• depends upon: PDFBOX-3534 NPE if an AcroForm field's child cosdict is null
• depends upon: TIKA-2209 Update PDFBox to 2.0.4
• is duplicated by: TIKA-2139 NullPointerException on a valid PDF after loading