Can’t repair xref, repair already performed

Classification

Validator	Validator version	Error message type
Ghostscript	10.06.0

File format	Version	Specification	Description	Location
application/pdf	1.4			OPF
application/pdf	A-1b			OPF
application/pdf	1.4			OPF
application/pdf	1.4			OPF
application/pdf	1.4			OPF
application/pdf	1.4			OPF
application/pdf	1.7			corpus

Analyses

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Output example

The following errors were encountered at least once while processing this file:
        invalid object number
        Can't repair xref, repair already performed
        xref table was repaired

   **** This file had errors that were repaired or ignored.
   **** Please notify the author of the software that produced this
   **** file that it does not conform to Adobe's published PDF
   **** specification.


GPL Ghostscript 10.06.0 (2025-09-09)
Copyright (C) 2025 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software is supplied under the GNU AGPLv3 and comes with NO WARRANTY:
see the file COPYING for details.
Processing pages 1 through 1.
   **** Error: Couldn't get page info.
               Output may be incorrect.
   **** Error: page not found.

Notes on the error

Related errors by source files

Ghostscript:    A closing mark (] or >>) had no matching mark, ignoring the closing mark
Ghostscript:    Can't repair xref, repair already performed
Ghostscript:    circular reference to indirect object
Ghostscript:    Couldn't find a named resource
Ghostscript:    error executing PDF token
Ghostscript:    error reading a stream
Ghostscript:    invalid object number
Ghostscript:    object lacks an endobj
Ghostscript:    page not found.
Ghostscript:    xref table was repaired
JHOVE:  Invalid object definition
JHOVE:  No document catalog dictionary
JHOVE:  Unexpected exception java.*
veraPDF:        can not locate xref table

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