A google search reveals http://pdfbox.apache.org/ http://www.stefanochizzolini.it/en/projects/clown/features.html You should be able to call this from a beanshell assertion regards deepak
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Deepak Shetty <shet...@gmail.com> wrote: > There are some PDF to Text open source libraries in java (but I think it > also depends on your PDF if the text can be extracted) > + Beanshell assertion should allow you to do it > > regards > deepak > > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:42 PM, David Levine <eniv...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've got a web application that returns a PDF file, and I'd like to assert >> that a particular value is in the PDF file. I thought I could use a >> Response Assertion to look for the value. That was based on my totally >> naive and uninformed assumption about the PDF file format. After doing a >> cursory search, it looks like the actual text inside the PDF is encoded in >> some way that I haven't taken the time to figure out. In other words, the >> content of a PDF file is opaque to both myself and JMeter at the moment. >> So >> before I consider taking a little deeper dive to see if there's any way I >> can write an assertion on a text value in a PDF document, I thought I'd >> ask >> this most knowledgeable group the question: >> >> Does anyone know how to write an assertion on a text value in a PDF >> document? >> >> Just to give you a sense of it, here's what the beginning of the excellent >> JMeter proxy tutorial looks like. >> >> %PDF-1.4 >> %äöÜß >> 1 0 obj >> << /Length 2 0 R >> /Filter /FlateDecode >> >> >> stream >> xœÍZÉŽÜF ½ 0ÿ s ·‹,• À Ðêî rt2@> >> > >
