I am using CAM::PDF to loop page by page through a PDF document looking to exclude the PDF based on existence of one of a set of specific phrases. Many PDFs give no trouble. However, recently I encountered several PDFs where the following error occurs and halts my script:

"DecodeParms must be a dictionary"

Here is the PDF scan section of my code:

my $pdf = CAM::PDF->new($path_to_temp . $title);# Init an object
my $pages = $pdf->numPages;  # get pages to search
$ii = 1;                     # init the index  to PDF pages
while ($ii < $pages) {       # loop while more pages
   $PageText = $pdf->getPageText($ii);  # get the current page text
   # Begin to test for skip conditions
   $ix = 0;   # index into phrases to exclude
   # start a while loop for each exclude
   while (  $ix < $ExcludCnt) {   # start the loop while more phrases
      $phrase = $Exclud[$ix];     # move the phrase to a variable
      chomp $phrase;              # remove the new line character
      if ($PageText =~ /$phrase/i ) { # test the current phrase on the
+ current page
      print  " found ", $phrase;  # found a phrase
      $skip = 1;   # set to skip the url
      $orgcnt++;   # update a counter
      last;       # end the phrase loop
      }            # end the if page text 
   }               # end the while more phrases 
   continue {      # continue to next exclude phrase
      $ix++;       # increment the phrase index
      }            # end the continue next exclude
   last if $skip == 1;    # end the pdf page loop
   }               # end while PDF pages
continue {  
    $ii++ ;    # get the next PDF page and do it again
         }

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I am wondering if this is bug or a PDF version issue.

In reply to CAM::PDF Error by Anonymous Monk

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