How to fix the pdf “Bad 'Length' attribute in stream” issue using MacTex tools?

Question

Scenario: I am generating pdf using FPDI from php , where I use a template pdf to fill the form (its static not Fillable) ,I place text in required positions to give the feeling of its filled by user. which is working great except size it little extra than expected and pdf are viewable without any error or issues

New Requirement: Now I need to

• merge these files into single file
• create a bookmark to each report generated in first step (create TOC)
• possibility reset the page numbers

Obviously I need an open source tool , I don't find any opensource lib/tool( php /java/commandline ), so I installed MacTex package for pdflatex and realted tool

Whenever I include the pdf generated from php I get the errors below . My question to this great community is how I can fix this issue and what are the chances of merging the pdf files generated from php and add TOC

I have borrowed the tex file from SE by @captaincomic

Tex

\documentclass[8pt]{article}
\usepackage[final]{pdfpages}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}

\topmargin 70pt
\oddsidemargin 150pt

\pagestyle{fancy}
\rfoot{\Large\thepage}
\cfoot{}
\renewcommand {\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand {\footrulewidth}{0pt}

\begin{document}
\includepdfset{pagecommand=\thispagestyle{fancy}}
\includepdf[pages=-]{include_file.pdf}
\end{document}

> pdflatex number.tex

Output Error

  ....
    <include_file.pdf, id=3, page=1, 614.295pt x 794.97pt>
    <use include_file.pdf, page 1> <use include_file.pdf, page 1>
    <use include_file.pdf, page 1> <use include_file.pdf, page 1>
    <use include_file.pdf, page 1> [1{/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-var/fonts/map/p
    dftex/updmap/pdftex.map} <./include_file.pdfError (2874915): Bad 'Length' attribute in stream

    !pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file ./include_file.pdf): PDF inclusion: type <error> 
    cannot be copied
     ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

PDF file

Answer 1

I successfully repaired include_file.pdf using the command line tool pdftk:

pdftk include_file.pdf output include_file_fixed.pdf

or command line tool qpdf:

qpdf include_file.pdf include_file_fixed.pdf

Both tools recompress all stream objects within a PDF file, thereby renewing the value of the /Length entry in the associated stream dictionary of the stream object. qpdf reports wrong \Length values in 12 stream objects.

With the fixed file the error disappears.