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sinduja_venkata
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10 years ago
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Unable to read pdf : “dotNET.org_apache_pdfbox_pdmodel.PDDocument” is null or not an object

Hi,   I am trying to read the pdf file using pdfbox dll. I have gone through the threads and have followed the steps mentioned in the following thread: http://smartbear.com/forum...
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    HKosova
    10 years ago

    Update from the Support team: The problem was caused by Windows blocking the files downloaded from the Internet. It was resolved by clicking Unblock in the properties of each of the PDFBox DLLs.

     

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sinduja_venkata
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10 years ago

Thanks for your responses.

 

I have tried copying the project folder locally. I did change the architecture to be same as operating system. Mine is a 64 bit machine, so tried to change it to 64 bit to see if it works. But nothing has helped so far.

 

Any other suggestions??

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HKosova
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10 years ago

Looks like there's a problem loading the PDFBox DLL or resolving assembly references.

If you type

dotNET.

and press Ctrl+Space, do you see the org_apache_pdfbox_pdmodel namespace in the code completion? Or are there just the standard namespaces (Microsoft_*, System_*, and so on)?

Does it work if you run TestComplete as administrator?

If the org_apache_* namespace is missing, try this:

 

  1. Delete and re-add the PDFBox DLL in CLR Bridge.
  2. Change the preferred architecture to 32-bit.
  3. Restart TestComplete and check the code completion again.

Let us know if this helps.