Validating PDF Content

Article Overview:

This article will cover how you can achieve the following:

How to validate content within PDF files. Whether you're verifying the presence of specific text or ensuring that certain elements are correctly formatted, this guide outlines the steps to perform PDF validation efficiently.

Problem Statement:

In scenarios where validating the content of a PDF is necessary—such as compliance checks, content accuracy, or data integrity—it can be challenging to extract and verify text within these files. This article addresses the need for an effective solution to search and validate text within PDF documents.

Solution:

To validate the content of a PDF, you can user this extension designed to extract text from a PDF file and search for specified strings. Here’s how you can implement this solution:

Steps to Validate PDF Content

1. Create Extension in your project: Ensure that the PDF validation extension is created/added in your testing environment.

2. Prepare Your PDF: Have the PDF file ready for testing. This file will be passed as a variable in your test step.

3. Define Search Criteria: Specify the text you want to search for within the PDF. This will also be passed as a variable in the test step.

4. Execute the Test Step:

   • Pass the PDF file and the search text to the extension.
   • The extension will extract the text from the PDF and perform a search for the specified string.

5. Review Results:

   • If the text is found, a success message will be returned and displayed in the side effects.
   • If the text is not found, an appropriate message will be displayed indicating the absence of the specified text.

6. Assert the Outcome: You can include assertions in your test journey to verify whether the text was found as expected. This can help ensure that the PDF content meets your validation criteria.

Example Test Journey:

1. Input Variables:

   • PDF file: example.pdf
   • Search text: "Important Notice"

2. Validation Execution:

            searchInPdf(example.pdf, "Important Notice") returning $response

1. Expected Outcomes:

   • If "Important Notice" is present in example.pdf, the output will confirm "The text "Important Notice" was found in the PDF."
   • If not, the output will be The text "Important Notice"was NOT found in the PDF.
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