Hello, I’m new to Katalon and I need to resolve a question. In my system, we issue data-based PDF reports. My test boils down to comparing two values present in a PDF report, for example: I need to check if the value “Total 1” is equal to the value “Total 2”, both present in the PDF report. Can I fetch this data from the PDF report using Katalon? How should I do?
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Review some of the old ideas on this forum and see which one works for you:
And on other forums:
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Katalon Studio does not offer any built-in solution to get values of PDF file. You have to invent a solution for your self.
For example, the following article gives a quick example to convert a PDF to a text file.
Please try to get a text out of a PDF.
However, you would find the text file is a mess of character sequence, which is un-parsable. Therefore not reusable at all.
IMHO, PDF->Text conversion is not very useful.
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You can convert a PDF into an image.
https://www.baeldung.com/pdf-conversions-java#introduction-3
Once you converted 2 PDF files into image files, then you can compare 2 image files and find a diff.
Using AShot you can create a diff image
like this:
The following shows my attempt in Katalon Studio to compile a visual diff reports of 2 PDF files downloaded from web:
I am afraid this project is hard for others to reuse, as it requires a lot of technical additives that Katalon Studio misses.
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