[ERROR] Ignore page 1 due to making page error: invalid literal for int() with base 16: 'x1'

[jangkim7]

Description of the bug

I am unable to convert the attached PDF to DOCX.

sample.pdf

I am using the parse method to simply convert all pages.

parse("sample.pdf", "sample.docx")

Here is the output that I get:

[INFO] Start to convert sample.pdf
[INFO] [1/4] Opening document...
[INFO] [2/4] Analyzing document...
[INFO] [3/4] Parsing pages...
[INFO] (1/1) Page 1
[INFO] [4/4] Creating pages...
[INFO] (1/1) Page 1
[ERROR] Ignore page 1 due to making page error: invalid literal for int() with base 16: 'x1'
[INFO] Terminated in 0.21s.

How to reproduce the bug

See my description. It has the sample PDF file and the code snippet causing the error.

pdf2docx version

0.5.8

Operating system

MacOS

Python version

3.10

[JoshhMiranda]

I am currently facing the same issue as well. The same code was working fine 10 hours ago but now fails. The error is as follows:
[ERROR] Ignore page 1 due to making page error: invalid literal for int() with base 16: 'x1'

[jangkim7]

I can't get any PDFs to work. I thought it was related to my specific PDF, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Every PDF I try fails.

[JoshhMiranda]

It seems to be an issue with the library itself unfortunately.

[jcgarciaca]

pdf2docx depends on fonttools and PyMuPDF. They were recently updated. So, I downgraded them (though I’m not sure if the issue was caused by one or both). However, this worked for me.

[JoshhMiranda]

@jcgarciaca Could you specify which version of PuMuPDF and fonttools you're using after downgrading them?

[JoshhMiranda]

I tried downgrading PyMuPDF and fonttools to these versions: and pdf2docx works now.
@jcgarciaca thanks for the ideaa!!!
@jangkim7 this will solve your issue.

pip install PyMuPDF==1.24.14
pip install fonttools==4.55.0

[jangkim7]

Thank you, this worked!

[HelpFireCode]

Thank you！ this worked！

[piscesvivian]

It seems to a 100% chance happens error.

[hstov3]

Thanks much for the workaround above.

During debugging with pdf2docx version 0.5.8, the stack trace of the captured exception is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<env_dir>\lib\site-packages\pdf2docx\converter.py", line 225, in make_docx
    page.make_docx(docx_file)
  File "<env_dir>\lib\site-packages\pdf2docx\page\Page.py", line 202, in make_docx
    self.sections.make_docx(doc)
  File "<env_dir>\lib\site-packages\pdf2docx\layout\Sections.py", line 55, in make_docx
    section.make_docx(doc)
  File "<env_dir>\lib\site-packages\pdf2docx\layout\Section.py", line 97, in make_docx
    column.make_docx(doc)
  File "<env_dir>\lib\site-packages\pdf2docx\layout\Column.py", line 49, in make_docx
    self.blocks.make_docx(doc)
  File "<env_dir>\lib\site-packages\pdf2docx\layout\Blocks.py", line 327, in make_docx
    block.make_docx(p)
  File "<env_dir>\lib\site-packages\pdf2docx\text\TextBlock.py", line 366, in make_docx
    for line in self.lines: line.make_docx(p)
  File "<env_dir>\lib\site-packages\pdf2docx\text\Line.py", line 175, in make_docx
    for span in self.spans: span.make_docx(p)
  File "<env_dir>\lib\site-packages\pdf2docx\text\TextSpan.py", line 379, in make_docx
    self._set_text_format(docx_run)
  File "<env_dir>\lib\site-packages\pdf2docx\text\TextSpan.py", line 406, in _set_text_format
    docx_run.font.color.rgb = RGBColor(*rgb_component(self.color))
  File "<env_dir>\lib\site-packages\pdf2docx\common\share.py", line 162, in rgb_component
    return [int(s[i:i+2], 16) for i in [0, 2, 4]]
  File "<env_dir>\lib\site-packages\pdf2docx\common\share.py", line 162, in <listcomp>
    return [int(s[i:i+2], 16) for i in [0, 2, 4]]
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 16: 'x1'

self.color at line 406 in TextSpan.py is: -16777216
the negative value breaks rgb_component()

Seems like this is related to known upstream issue in PyMuPDF Issue #4139.

[bnhquang]

Thank you @JoshhMiranda you're a live saver. It worked. If it still doesn't work for you just restart vscode/your IDE