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Can we verify PDF in selenium?
To handle a PDF document in Selenium test automation, we can use a java library called PDFBox. Apache PDFBox is an open-source library that exclusively helps in handling the PDF documents. We can use it to verify the text present in the document, extract a specific section of text or image in the documents, and so on.
Can selenium verify text inside a PDF loaded by the browser?
You cannot do this using WebDriver natively. However, PDFBox API can be used here to read content of PDF file. You will have to first of all shift a focus to browser window where PDF file is opened. You can then parse all the content of PDF file and search for the desired text string.
How do you read and write a PDF file in selenium?
Steps:
- Download PDFBox API from here.
- Reference PDFBox JAR file in your Selenium project.
- Now, use below code to convert PDF content to text. PDFBox API is used along with Java input stream for this purpose.
- Use TestNG assert command to verify that PDF contains ‘Open the setting. xml, you can see it is like this’ text.
Which OS is not supported by Selenium?
UNIX is an OS which is not supported by Selenium.
How can selenium verify text inside a PDF?
While not natively supported, I have found a couple ways using the java driver. One way is to have the pdf open in your browser (having adobe acrobat installed) and then use keyboard shortcut keys to select all text (CTRL+A), then copy it to the clipboard (CTRL+C) and then you can verify the text in the clipboard. eg:
Is there any way to verify text inside a PDF?
It would be really nice to be able to check the contents of the pdf with Selenium – for example verify that some text is present. Is there any way to do this? While not natively supported, I have found a couple ways using the java driver.
How to convert a PDF to text in Java?
Another way, still in java, is to download the pdf and then convert the pdf to text with PDFBox, see http://www.prasannatech.net/2009/01/convert-pdf-text-parser-java-api-pdfbox.html for an example on how to do this. You cannot do this using WebDriver natively.
How to validate the first page of a PDF?
For example, if the PDF has 100 pages, we can give the range from first to second page to validate the text present. Below code snippet to specify the range which will read first and second page of the PDF. If you want to verify the text some where in the middle of the PDF you can read that and validate.