Bug 101095

Summary:	pdftotext unable to parse PDF file: `Syntax Error: Can't get Fields array<0a>`
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Paul Menzel <pmenzel+bugs.freedesktop.org>
Component:	utils	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Paul Menzel 2017-05-19 09:05:12 UTC

With poppler 0.48 and 0.54, parsing a PDF file, which I am not allowed to share, fails with the error below.

```
$ pdftotext -v # Debian Sid/unstable
pdftotext version 0.48.0
Copyright 2005-2016 The Poppler Developers - http://poppler.freedesktop.org
Copyright 1996-2011 Glyph & Cog, LLC
$ pdftotext test.pdf 
Syntax Error: Can't get Fields array<0a>
```

Building the Poppler 0.54.0 from source doesn’t fix the issue.

Comment 1 Paul Menzel 2017-05-19 09:11:43 UTC

I forgot to add, that the utility from Xpdf is able to parse the PDF file.

```
> xpdf/pdftotext -v
pdftotext version 3.04
Copyright 1996-2014 Glyph & Cog, LLC
```

Comment 2 Albert Astals Cid 2017-05-19 18:35:04 UTC

No file -> no fix

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