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:
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