Bug#792676: libpdfbox-java: pdfannotextractor.pl fails to find org.pdfbox.cos.ICOSVisitor class

Álvaro Herrera

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Jul 17, 2015, 8:30:03 AM7/17/15

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Package: libpdfbox-java
Version: 1:1.8.7+dfsg-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I am trying to apply the solution proposed in this answer
http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/48118/82119 but on following the first
step, the pdfannotextractor.pl dies with:

$ /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/pax/pdfannotextractor.pl capturing-ddl.pdf
PDFAnnotExtractor 0.1l, 2012/04/18 - Copyright (c) 2008, 2011, 2012 by Heiko Oberdiek.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/pdfbox/cos/ICOSVisitor
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2615)
at java.lang.Class.getMethod0(Class.java:2856)
at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:1668)
at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.getMainMethod(LauncherHelper.java:494)
at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:486)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.pdfbox.cos.ICOSVisitor
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
... 6 more

I have no idea how to fix this problem. Maybe I need to specify a
classpath or something? I looked at the .pl file itself and there's a
--install option, but on running it, it says the PDFBox "is already
found":

$ /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/pax/pdfannotextractor.pl
--install
PDFAnnotExtractor 0.1l, 2012/04/18 - Copyright (c) 2008, 2011, 2012 by Heiko Oberdiek.
* Nothing to do, because PDFBox is already found:
/usr/share/java/pdfbox.jar

Not quite sure what to do next. Maybe it's just missing a dependency?

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Debian Release: 8.1
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Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libpdfbox-java depends on:
ii libfontbox-java 1:1.8.7+dfsg-1

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gregor herrmann

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Jul 17, 2015, 9:10:03 AM7/17/15

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Control: reassign -1 texlive-latex-extra

Some observations:

* /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/pax/pdfannotextractor.pl would
download PDFBox-0.7.3.zip from Sourceforge. That's a quite old
version (in Debian in oldoldstable).
* Looking at
pdfbox/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/cos/ICOSVisitor.java (in the
PDFBox source), I guess that this class is called
org.apache.pdfbox.cos (and not org.pdfbox.cos) by now.
A diff in the git repo (upstream tags) shows the same. Pseudo-diff:

diff --git a/current/src/org/pdfbox/cos/ICOSVisitor.java b/current/src/org/pdfbox/cos/ICOSVisitor.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 04b7542..0000000
--- a/current/src/org/pdfbox/cos/ICOSVisitor.java
+++ /dev/null

-package org.pdfbox.cos;
-public interface ICOSVisitor

diff --git a/pdfbox/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/cos/ICOSVisitor.java b/pdfbox/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/cos/ICOSVisitor.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1a09c38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pdfbox/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/cos/ICOSVisitor.java

+package org.apache.pdfbox.cos;
+public interface ICOSVisitor

My conclusion is that /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/pax/pax.jar
(in texlive-latex-extra) needs to be adjusted to a "recent" version of PDFBox.

Reassigning the bug.

As a workaround it might work to
- download the old PDFBox zip, put the .jar in some directory and
- run the script as
CLASSPATH=/path/to/PDFBox-0.7.3.jar /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/pax/pdfannotextractor.pl capturing-ddl.pdf
(or something similar)

Cheers,
gregor

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Norbert Preining

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Jul 17, 2015, 9:20:03 AM7/17/15

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Hi all,

> * /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/pax/pdfannotextractor.pl would
> download PDFBox-0.7.3.zip from Sourceforge. That's a quite old
> version (in Debian in oldoldstable).
> * Looking at
> pdfbox/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/cos/ICOSVisitor.java (in the
> PDFBox source), I guess that this class is called
> org.apache.pdfbox.cos (and not org.pdfbox.cos) by now.
> A diff in the git repo (upstream tags) shows the same. Pseudo-diff:

Can this please reported to upupstream Heiko Oberdiek - otherwise
there will be no fix.

Thanks

Norbert

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severity 670040 important
merge 670040 792676
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On 17.07.2015 14:59, gregor herrmann wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 texlive-latex-extra
>
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:18:44 +0300, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
>
>> I am trying to apply the solution proposed in this answer
>> http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/48118/82119 but on following the first
>> step, the pdfannotextractor.pl dies with:
>>

Known issue. Merging.

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