I have a customer who tried to upload a PDF to my site. They got an
error from my app stating 'not a valid pdf'.
I ran the following locally with the same PDF my customer tried to
upload.
C:\Documents and Settings\nbdvf7d\Desktop\MEE_VRS\perf\sept
15\MerchantExplorer\ WebContent\WEB-INF\lib>java org.pdfbox.ExtractText
c:\2800674852 POD.pdf Exception in thread "main"
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPageNode.getAllKids(PDPageNode.java:194)
at org.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPageNode.getAllKids(PDPageNode.java:182)
at
org.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocumentCatalog.getAllPages(PDDocumentCatalog.ja
va:226)
at
org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.writeText(PDFTextStripper.java:216)
at org.pdfbox.ExtractText.main(ExtractText.java:244)
Jeremy D. Stayton
OFFICER; CNSLT - APPS PROG
MERCHANT PRODUCTION SUPPORT BASE
BA Merchant Services, LLC.