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tmahender12
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9 years ago

Compare pdf files

Hi,   I downlaoded jar for pdf comaparison, iam comparing in text mode, while running the program, iam getting vbscript runtime error.   i took the comparision code from  https://support.smartbea...
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tmahender12
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iam using 2.0.2

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tmahender12
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9 years ago

can i get code of testcomplete for 2.0.2 version pdfbox

  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    Champion Level 3
    9 years ago

    Try with 1.8.x version first.

    The documentation referenced in the article contains a section that describes the differences and breaking changes between 1.x and 2.x versions. If you get code for 1.8 working, than you may go through the changes list and consider what is relevant for you and how it can be adjusted.

     

    P.S. The code for v.1.8 worked for me, but only for a small files. For big PDFs the buffer size error was reported by Java. This seems to be corrected in v.2.x (actually, 2.x uses another approach to read files), but requires correction of the code from the article. I did not follow with this as it was not urgent for me at that moment, so I don't have code for v.2.x.

    • maximojo's avatar
      maximojo
      Frequent Contributor
      9 years ago

      I have tried with PDFBox 2.x and indeed it does not work. I have asked Smartbear support to update their code on their how-to page but probably not a high priority.

       

      I just went back to using 1.8.x for now though you could get 2.x working yourself, you'd have to figure out the interface changes though.

      • AlexKaras's avatar
        AlexKaras
        Champion Level 3
        9 years ago

        tmahender12, maximojo :

         

        OK, I've spent a bit of time for the DelphiScript project from the https://support.smartbear.com/support/media/images/techpapers/testcomplete/samples/Sample-TestComplete-Project.zip suite used as a sample in the https://support.smartbear.com/articles/testcomplete/testing-pdf-files-with-testcomplete/ article.

         

        These were the changes I made to make the first 'Getting Text' test item not to fail for the pdfbox-app-2.0.1.jar :

        For the PDFExamples_DelphiScript project:

        -- Switch to the project properties and select the JavaBridge node;

        -- Remove the reference to the pdfbox-app-1.8.12.jar file and add instead a reference to the pdfbox-app-2.0.1.jar one in the Class Paths box;

        -- Add org.apache.pdfbox.text.PDFTextStripper class to the Java Classes box

         

        For the code:

        -- code line like

        //  docObj := JavaClasses.org_apache_pdfbox_pdmodel.PDDocument.load_3(fileName);

        must be replaced with the following code snippet
          aFile := JavaClasses.java_io.File.newInstance(fileName);
          docObj := JavaClasses.org_apache_pdfbox_pdmodel.PDDocument.load_2(aFile);


        -- code line like

        //  textStripperObj := JavaClasses.org_apache_pdfbox_util.PDFTextStripper.newInstance();
        must be replaced with the following line

          textStripperObj := JavaClasses.org_apache_pdfbox_text.PDFTextStripper.newInstance();

         

        -- code line like

        //  text := textStripperObj.getText_2(docObj);
        must be replaced with the following line

          text := textStripperObj.getText(docObj);

         

        Hope, this will help...

         

        P.S. Version 2.0 of PDFBox processed pdf of size >800KB without any problem, while previous version 1.8 failed because of the 'Could not push back xxx bytes in order to reparse stream' error from Java.

         

        P.P.S.: HKosova, TanyaYatskovska : maybe this will be of some use when you update the sample and the article...