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Tilman Hausherr commented on PDFBOX-5290:
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It happens with 2.0.20 on the command line but not with 2.0.24.

> ClassCastException during Text Extraction
> -----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-5290
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5290
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Text extraction
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.20, 2.0.24
>            Reporter: Eric R Manzitti
>            Priority: Major
>         Attachments: newBroke.pdf, newBroke.txt
>
>
> I am getting: 
>  
> java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDictionary cannot be 
> cast to org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSArray
> When executing the following code:
>  
> public byte[] extractTextPDFBox(String fileNamePath) throws PQException {
> String UTF_8 = "UTF-8";
> PDFLibraryProperties pdfLibraryProperties = 
> PDFLibraryProperties.getInstance();
>  String regex = 
> pdfLibraryProperties.getAsString(PDFLibraryConstants.REGEX_TO_REMOVE_FROM_EXTRACTED_TEXT);
> byte[] bytesToReturn;
>  try {
>  FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(new File(fileNamePath));
>  PDDocument pdfDoc = PDDocument.load(fis);
>  PDFTextStripper pdfStripper = new PDFTextStripper();
>  String textFromPDF = pdfStripper.getText(pdfDoc);
>  pdfDoc.close();
>  bytesToReturn = textFromPDF.getBytes(UTF_8);
>  String textStr = new String(bytesToReturn).replaceAll(regex, 
> PDFLibraryConstants.BLANK_SPACE);
>  bytesToReturn = textStr.getBytes();
>  fis.close();
>  } catch (IOException e) {
>  pqUtilityLogger.logError(e.getMessage());
>  throw new PQException("e.getMessage());
>  }
>  return bytesToReturn;
>  }
>  
> It dies on String textFromPDF = pdfStripper.getText(pdfDoc);
>  



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