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nilesh_singhai's avatar
nilesh_singhai
Occasional Contributor
13 years ago

Read table contents in PDF opened in diffferent tab in IE9 browser

Hi,



We have a requirement where we need to validate the PDF Tabular data with data present in the Application table.

When a PDF Icon is clicked on one of the Silevlight page, a PDF Report is opened in other Tab of IE 9 browser.



Can anybody please suggest how tabular data in PDF be verified with the Tabular data in a Grid.



Thanks in advance.

2 Replies

  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    Community Hero
    13 years ago
    Hi Nilesh,



    If you are interested to check not only data but also a layout of the data, then I never heard about methods that make it possible to get data layout from the PDF files. But if you are interested in data comparison only, then you may search for the utility usually called pdftotext (there should be several of them available) that exports pdf contents to the text file tha you can parse later and compare with the grid data.
  • nilesh_singhai's avatar
    nilesh_singhai
    Occasional Contributor
    13 years ago
    Hi Alexei,

    Thanks for your Reply.



    Actually our requirement is to parse through the Grid Column and rowwise to get the Cell data and verify the same with the data displayed on PDF(Cellwise).

    We could successfully read the PDF content as Text but tht is not what is expected to be done.We need tabular comparision.

    Juut wanted to know if it is possible to read the tabular data from PDF and verify the same.