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Diceman
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago

Configuring TestComplete to work with PDF files

Hello;   I am trying to configure TestComplete to extract text, images and other content from PDF files.   I have followed the Preparation Steps, listed here, but when I run the loadDoucment() func...
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    Diceman
    8 years ago

    I believe I have the problem solved - I am now able to see member methods and properties using the code completion function in TestComplete (see attached screenshot).  

     

    I think the root cause of my issue was version incompatibility.   I downloaded and used jars from different PDFBox versions, and I had to go back to 1.8.9 to find a version that worked with TestComplete 10.

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Diceman
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago

So I've spent a fair amount of time going through your linked document, but I haven't been able to do what I actually need to do yet - which is to create a PDDocument object in order to access a PDF file.

 

I have discovered that code completion works fine for other lines (see attached screenshot for details - you can see that the code completion context menu shows several flavours of newInstance).   But I can see any properties or methods beneath the PDDocument object of the next line down.

 

I've experimented with both PDFBox 1.8.13 and PDFBox 2.0.6 jar files.   I've also checked the capitalization of my java classes several times.   I'm stumped.

 

Any ideas on what I should check next?

  • Diceman's avatar
    Diceman
    Occasional Contributor
    8 years ago

    I believe I have the problem solved - I am now able to see member methods and properties using the code completion function in TestComplete (see attached screenshot).  

     

    I think the root cause of my issue was version incompatibility.   I downloaded and used jars from different PDFBox versions, and I had to go back to 1.8.9 to find a version that worked with TestComplete 10.

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      AlexKaras
      Champion Level 3
      8 years ago

      Good.

       

      P.S. It looks like the versioning problem in Java is even worse than notorious 'dll hell'... :)