I tried your code with two 24bit images, one interlaced the other not. It worked fine with the non-interlaced image but failed with the same error as yours for the interlaced image.

I was able to get it working by using GD to handle the image: 

use GD;
# ...

my $imageFile = "image-24bit-interlaced.png";
my $gdimg     = GD::Image->new($imageFile);
my $img       = $pdf->image_gd($gdimg);

my $image     = $page->gfx;
$image->image($img, 0/mm, 100/mm);

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It produced a new PDF with the image placed. I did get a warning though:
libpng warning: Interlace handling should be turned on when using png_read_image
This is a bug in libpng addressed in this discussion.

PS the module version you are using is very old - if you are planning to use it more you should update to the latest version. If you do you will need to update a few lines of your code also.

In reply to Re: Image errors with PDF::API2; by tangent
in thread Image errors with PDF::API2; by djlerman

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