NullPointerException in tika-app, parsing PDF content -----------------------------------------------------
Key: TIKA-778 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-778 Project: Tika Issue Type: Bug Components: gui, parser Affects Versions: 1.0 Reporter: Bastian Mathes I try to extract text from some pdf files with the tika app. In version 0.10 the error ERROR - Error: Could not parse predefined CMAP file for '--UCS2' is printed on the command line, but text extraction works and is correct. In version 1.0 I get the same error message on the command line, but also receive an exception and no text is extracted: org.apache.tika.exception.TikaException: Unexpected RuntimeException from org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParser@62bc36ff at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:244) at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:242) at org.apache.tika.parser.AutoDetectParser.parse(AutoDetectParser.java:120) at org.apache.tika.gui.TikaGUI.handleStream(TikaGUI.java:320) at org.apache.tika.gui.TikaGUI.openFile(TikaGUI.java:279) at org.apache.tika.gui.TikaGUI.actionPerformed(TikaGUI.java:238) at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1995) at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2318) at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:387) at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:242) at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(AbstractButton.java:357) at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI.doClick(BasicMenuItemUI.java:809) at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicMenuItemUI$Handler.mouseReleased(BasicMenuItemUI.java:850) at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6288) at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3267) at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6053) at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2041) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4651) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2099) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4481) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4577) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4238) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4168) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2085) at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2478) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4481) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:643) at java.awt.EventQueue.access$000(EventQueue.java:84) at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(EventQueue.java:602) at java.awt.EventQueue$1.run(EventQueue.java:600) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:87) at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:98) at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:616) at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:614) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:87) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:613) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:269) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:174) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:169) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:161) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.serializer.ToHTMLStream.endElement(ToHTMLStream.java:907) at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerHandlerImpl.endElement(TransformerHandlerImpl.java:273) at org.apache.tika.sax.ContentHandlerDecorator.endElement(ContentHandlerDecorator.java:136) at org.apache.tika.gui.TikaGUI$2.endElement(TikaGUI.java:519) at org.apache.tika.sax.TeeContentHandler.endElement(TeeContentHandler.java:94) at org.apache.tika.sax.ContentHandlerDecorator.endElement(ContentHandlerDecorator.java:136) at org.apache.tika.sax.SecureContentHandler.endElement(SecureContentHandler.java:256) at org.apache.tika.sax.ContentHandlerDecorator.endElement(ContentHandlerDecorator.java:136) at org.apache.tika.sax.ContentHandlerDecorator.endElement(ContentHandlerDecorator.java:136) at org.apache.tika.sax.ContentHandlerDecorator.endElement(ContentHandlerDecorator.java:136) at org.apache.tika.sax.SafeContentHandler.endElement(SafeContentHandler.java:273) at org.apache.tika.sax.XHTMLContentHandler.endDocument(XHTMLContentHandler.java:216) at org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDF2XHTML.endDocument(PDF2XHTML.java:112) at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.writeText(PDFTextStripper.java:323) at org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDF2XHTML.process(PDF2XHTML.java:61) at org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParser.parse(PDFParser.java:96) at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java:242) ... 43 more I tried the same pdf files (and can switch forth and back between version 0.10 and 1.0, this behavior is stable) and it looks like the exact same pdfbox version is inside the tika-app-0.10.jar and tika-app-1.0.jar. It would be great if version 1.0 could do what 0.10 can. Sorry that I cannot provide the pdf. -- 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