{"id":15230,"date":"2018-04-27T05:40:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T12:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ephesoft.com\/docs\/?p=15230"},"modified":"2020-08-26T15:57:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T22:57:26","slug":"kb00021973-com-itextpdf-text-exceptions-invalidpdfexception-pdf-header-signature-not-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ephesoft.com\/docs\/kb00021973-com-itextpdf-text-exceptions-invalidpdfexception-pdf-header-signature-not-found\/","title":{"rendered":"KB00021973: com.itextpdf.text.exceptions.InvalidPdfException: PDF header signature not found."},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"aui-3-18-0-4_115719\"><strong id=\"aui-3-18-0-4_246371\">Issue:<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you are seeing PDF File which cannot be processed and failing with below exception then it indicates that the PDF file is corrupt.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"aui-3-18-0-4_246366\"><span id=\"aui-3-18-0-4_246365\">4.5.0.0 Windows 10 2018-04-16T17:14:11,247 ERROR pool-4-thread-3 com.ephesoft.dcma.util.PDFUtil &#8211; Error in reading the file:&lt;PATH&gt; \\0000_PV-Rech-1867010.pdf<br \/>\n<span id=\"aui-3-18-0-4_246364\">com.itextpdf.text.exceptions.InvalidPdfException: PDF header signature not found.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"aui-3-18-0-4_246362\"><strong>Analysis:<\/strong><br \/>\n<span id=\"aui-3-18-0-4_246366\"><span id=\"aui-3-18-0-4_246365\">Before the conversion process starts the PDF file has to be validated. 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