PDF files created in ABBYY Finereader 10 are unreadable in Evince

[Anton Eliasson]

Binary package hint: evince

If I try to open a PDF file created by the Windows OCR program ABBYY Finereader 10 in Evince, the entire document is unreadable. The background is a colorful pattern, stretching the whole document even when the background is supposed to be white. The "file" command suggests that the files are "PDF documents, version 1.3".
This bug also exists in Okular, xpdf and ePdfViewer, so it might be a backend issue. Foxit Reader can however open them without problems.

See this forum thread for more information (in German): http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/pdf-aus-abbyy-finereader-mit-evince-unbrauchb/#post-2485080

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic 2.6.35.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: c43a19076448baad41c3944df9d92f15
CheckboxSystem: 533a8038ef5a55601694b49142442fa7
Date: Sat Feb 19 19:01:56 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=sv_SE:sv:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=sv_SE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince

[Anton Eliasson (eliasson)]

Example of a PDF that gives the mentioned result.

[Anton Eliasson (eliasson)]

gv which is based on Ghostscript can view these problematic files without visual artefacts. So this is very likely a bug in Poppler.

[Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg)]

This problem is due to poppler being compiled without libopenjpeg support under Ubuntu. For changing this, openjpeg has to be included in main (see bug 711061). I’m marking this bug as a duplicate of bug 710412 (Document Viewer Does Not Display Graphics in PDF Files), another issue due to the missing openjpeg support.

[Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg)]

Forgot to mention: Bug 710412 also contains a link to a PPA with a version of poppler with openjpeg support -- this version renders the example PDF just fine.