Examples files throwing NPE in OLEShape : http://www4.worldbank.org/afr/ssatp/resources/html/conferences/Addis04/04_wedenesday_presentations/04_prsp_fr.ppt http://aniorh.free.fr/pdfJournees/ANIORH27-03-09.ppt Caused by java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.poi.hslf.model.OLEShape.getObjectData(OLEShape.java86) at org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.HSLFExtractor.parse(HSLFExtractor.java45) at org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.OfficeParser.parse(OfficeParser.java199) at org.apache.tika.parser.CompositeParser.parse(CompositeParser.java242) ... 43 more
Fixed in r1169679 Yegor