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vkumar_2
New Contributor
11 years ago

Getting exception while trying to read PDF file using pdfbox dll

I did some searching from earlier posts and found this way of reading text from pdf file. I found solution to read PDF using dll file. - Add IKVM.GNU.Classpath.dll, PDFBox-0.7.3.dll as refer...
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Colin_McCrae
Community Hero
11 years ago
No idea if this will work in TestComplete ....



In a previous workplace, we used QTPro and had to extract text from PDF's. We simply loaded the PDF by invoking Adobe reader, activated it as the current window, and then forced a select all & copy and then dumped the contents of the clipboard into a string within our script and worked with that.



Primitive, but it worked well.



No good on protected PDF's though.
  • palatha3's avatar
    palatha3
    Occasional Contributor
    10 years ago

    Hi,

     

    The example/solution given here seems interesting for pdf file comparsions but I wanted to do it with VBScript. I appreciate if someone can help me on this. thanks

    • HKosova's avatar
      HKosova
      SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
      10 years ago

      Hi palatha3,

       

      Here's a VBScript example:

      Sub Test
        Dim strFileName, doc, pdfStripper, str
      
  strFileName = "C:\Work\TestComplete-datasheet.pdf"

        Set doc = dotNET.org_apache_pdfbox_pdmodel.PDDocument.load(strFileName)
  Set pdfStripper = dotNET.org_apache_pdfbox_util.PDFTextStripper.zctor_2
      
  str = pdfStripper.getText_2(doc)
  Call Log.Message("See Additional Info", str)
End Sub

       

      Before running this example, you need to do the following:

       

      1. Download PDFBox .NET from here:
        http://www.squarepdf.net/pdfbox-in-net
        and unzip the archive.

      2. Unblock the DLLs: In Windows Explorer, right-click each DLL and select Properties. On the General tab, at the bottom, if there's an Unblock button, click it, then click OK. (Screenshot)
        Repeat for all DLLs.

      3. In TestComplete, go to Tools > Current Project Properties > CLR Bridge, click Browse Files and add pdfbox-<version>.dll.
      • edwardsun007's avatar
        edwardsun007
        Occasional Contributor
        8 years ago

        Hi 

         

    • palatha3's avatar
      palatha3
      Occasional Contributor
      10 years ago

      Thank you for your information.

      I have downloaded the pdfbox and set in the CLRBridge as you have mentioned. I couldn't do step 2 (unblock dlls) as this option is not listed on file Properties/general tab. In testcomplete I see a syntax error (error 110: SYNTAX ERROR while lexing character "?".) on the following line

      Set doc = dotNET.org_apache_pdfbox_pdmodel.PDDocument.load(s​trFileName)

       

      Looks like the pdfbox methods not accessible. How to resolve this.

      • HKosova's avatar
        HKosova
        SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
        10 years ago

        Could you please post a screenshot of the editor with your script?