Was able to narrow this down to a small block of code:
Using oFS As New IO.FileStream(path:=sPageImage, mode:=IO.FileMode.Create)
oPage.Resources.Images.Item(1).Save(stream:=oFS,
…...there is exactly 1 image on the page) Using oFS As New IO.FileSt...happening once we add the Aspose.OCR nuget package to the Solution...