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Tim Allison commented on TIKA-2117:
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Thank you for checking. I forgot that PDFBox's ExtractText doesn't exercise
extraction of form fields so you wouldn't trigger this issue by following our
directions. Sorry.
> NullPointerException on PDF (fixed in PDFBox)
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Key: TIKA-2117
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-2117
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: parser
> Affects Versions: 1.13
> Environment: Windows 7 x64, JVM 1.8.0_101
> Reporter: Seva Alekseyev
>
> Tika PDF parser emits a NullPointerException on the following PDF file:
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/92341073/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)
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