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@> >
