Rodrigo Ferrari created PDFBOX-1389:
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             Summary: Multy thread access to pdf generate erros
                 Key: PDFBOX-1389
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1389
             Project: PDFBox
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Text extraction
    Affects Versions: 1.7.1
         Environment: Windows/Linux
            Reporter: Rodrigo Ferrari


When working with a PDF that need to be accessed by multiple threads and 
execute operations to extract the text by region, to avoid the waiting time, it 
give me a few of warnings and exceptions.

2012-08-17 11:06:23 WARN  org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine     - 
java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.util.operator.SetGraphicsStateParameters.process(SetGraphicsStateParameters.java:50)
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processOperator(PDFStreamEngine.java:556)
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processSubStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:270)
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processSubStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:237)
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:217)
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.processPage(PDFTextStripper.java:448)
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripperByArea.extractRegions(PDFTextStripperByArea.java:153)
        at br.com.pol.util.ProcessamentoPagina.run(ProcessamentoPagina.java:58)
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown 
Source)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

And the Exception:
2012-08-17 11:06:24 WARN  org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser     - Corrupt 
object reference
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException: Unknown dir object c=')' 
cInt=41 peek=')' peekInt=41 16400
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFStreamParser$1.tryNext(PDFStreamParser.java:187)
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFStreamParser$1.hasNext(PDFStreamParser.java:194)
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processSubStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:257)
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processSubStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:237)
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:217)
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.processPage(PDFTextStripper.java:448)
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripperByArea.extractRegions(PDFTextStripperByArea.java:153)

I´m sure it´s the multi thread access, because if I do not use thread, it work 
perfectly.

My code:
RandomAccess scratchFile = new RandomAccessFile(new File("tmp_"+source), "rw");
PDDocument document = PDDocument.loadNonSeq(new File(source), scratchFile);

Separate the pages at 5 threads, run each one at the Executor Service.

Thanks in advance.

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