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:
Hi,
I have a PDF in the URL.
I am able to switch to the URL and read the full content of the PDF.
My requirement is
I need to fetch the value for the field Total from the PDF.
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Hi as part of our proof of concept for Katalon we need to prove we can verify text on a generated PDF which opens in a new tab.
The URL of the PDF is variable each time the document is generated:
I’ve tried using the switch to new tab and then get.url however the issue is I don’t know how to convert the PDF into text then use the verify text function.
Below is the current test case code I have:
import static com.kms.katalon.core.checkpoint.CheckpointFactory.findCheckpoint
import static com.…
Hi
I am trying to automate reading of text from PDF document which is saved and comparing it to a value.
I am always getting this error
I Verify PDF Contents FAILED.
Reason:
groovy.lang.GroovyRuntimeException: Could not find matching constructor for: org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser(java.io.FileInputStream)
Can you please guide how to resolve this issue.
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.
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 have published a GitHub project:
Motivation
A few years ago, I worked for a media company. I was asked to develop a tool software, which was a sort of web scraping tool. The target page was this ; it is still available to public at April 2023. The page looks as follows:
[target]
You don’t need to understand Japanese in this page. Just note the following points.
The page contains several links <a href="…">EXCEL</a> to the URLs of Excel files. It contains links to PDF files <a href="……
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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