When I try to convert certain pages of certain PDF to images I am getting error java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSNull cannot be cast to org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDictionary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: PDFBOX-1266 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1266 Project: PDFBox Issue Type: Bug Components: PDModel Affects Versions: 1.6.0 Environment: java version "1.6.0_30" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_30-b12) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.5-b03, mixed mode) Fedora 16 (and also Debian Squeeze) not tested on other systems Reporter: Radim Hatlapatka Unable to convert certain pages to images for certain PDF documents. Getting error: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSNull cannot be cast to org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDictionary method for converting page is called this way: BufferedImage image = page.convertToImage(BufferedImage.TYPE_3BYTE_BGR, 300); // where page is of type org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage Full stacktrace (of relevant part): java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSNull cannot be cast to org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDictionary at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.graphics.xobject.PDCcitt.getRGBImage(PDCcitt.java:119) at org.apache.pdfbox.util.operator.pagedrawer.Invoke.process(Invoke.java:78) at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processOperator(PDFStreamEngine.java:551) at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processSubStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:274) at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processSubStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:251) at org.apache.pdfbox.util.operator.pagedrawer.Invoke.process(Invoke.java:130) at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processOperator(PDFStreamEngine.java:551) at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processSubStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:274) at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processSubStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:251) at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:225) at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfviewer.PageDrawer.drawPage(PageDrawer.java:107) at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage.convertToImage(PDPage.java:722) at eu.eudml.enhancement.pdf2textviaocr.PdfImageExtractor.extractImagesUsingPdfParser(PdfImageExtractor.java:236) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira