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4 years ago

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PDF validation without Intelligent Quality add-on & PDFBox in Testcomplete

Hi, I have a scenario to validate (using Python) the PDF content (like name, transactions details etc) and the layout on several pages. The pages contains client position, transaction etc along with...

Marsha_R
4 years ago
The solution before IQ was available was one that just used PDFBox. Here's the previous reference.

https://support.smartbear.com/articles/testcomplete/testing-pdf-files-with-testcomplete

Another option is to find a suitable tool that converts pdf to text and then compare the text.

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Using python, you can install a package called pdfminer to extract the text from a PDF. You can then write your own validation on that text.

http://theautomatic.net/2020/01/21/how-to-read-pdf-files-with-python/

https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/scripting/specifics/python.html#Packages

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4 years ago

Thanks for the suggestions Marsha, tphillips!

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