Is it a bug?

[yiqiyu]

I met this when trying to open a pdf:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:/P4/y/y/pledge_extraction/main.py", line 49, in read_pdf2
    with pdfplumber.open(file) as pdf:
  File "C:\Users\yyq\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pdfplumber\pdf.py", line 40, in open
    return cls(open(path, "rb"), **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\yyq\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pdfplumber\pdf.py", line 34, in __init__
    self.metadata[k] = decode_text(v)
  File "C:\Users\yyq\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pdfplumber\utils.py", line 68, in decode_text
    ords = (ord(c) if type(c) == str else c for c in s)
TypeError: 'bool' object is not iterable

It seems that pdfplumber isn't correctly handling boolean values in documents' metadata

[jsvine]

Hi @yiqiyu, and thanks for flagging. That does look like it might be a bug. Do you have an example of a PDF that raises this error?

[yiqiyu]

ST东电_2018年第一季度报告全文_2018-04-28_1204826502.pdf

Yes, @jsvine . Please see the attachment.

[Yevgnen]

Same here.

[jsvine]

Thanks again for flagging this and providing the example PDF. And thanks to @Yevgnen for the fix. Merged and now available in v0.5.9.