[TIKA-2139] NullPointerException on a valid PDF after loading

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 1.13
• Component/s: parser

Environment

Windows 7 x64, JVM 1.8.0_101

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Seva Alekseyev
• Created: 20/Oct/16 17:48
• Updated: 20/Oct/16 18:52
• Resolved: 20/Oct/16 18:18

Description

On the attached PDF document, which opens fine in Acrobar Reader, the Tika parser throws the following error:

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)

Issue Links

• duplicates: TIKA-2117 NullPointerException on PDF (fixed in PDFBox)