Here we are just validating the presence of the subject headings and the expected values of the report name, date, and number. The following parse method is built for a document that contains a report name and date in a header, a report number in a footer, and several subject headings that may have information in them to be validated. How you parse the output depends on the original PDF document, how it gets converted, and what you are validating. Pdftotext does not have an option to send the conversion to stdout so the file read is necessary. The output is an array of strings, each entry representing a line in the file produced by pdftotext.exe. Where file is the full path to the PDF file to be converted and noblank indicates whether to remove empty lines from the text output. This method can be used to do the actual pdf conversion in Ruby: Install so that the pdftotext.exe file is in the path. To install Xpdf, download the package for your desired platform (we are currently working with Windows) from. We will start by explaining how to get the utility installed (example is for windows) and then we will go over some methods we used to do the conversion and parse the data. The following post will teach you how to use Xpdf to convert a PDF into a text file and then use ruby to parse out the returned data. Xpdf is an open source viewer for Adobe “.pdf” files that includes a set of utilities to do just about everything you would want to do to a PDF: extracting the PDF’s info or attachments or images or converting the PDF to a bitmap format, but the utility we are after here is Xpdf’s text extractor, pdftotext.exe, which will do just what it says. There are many programs/ruby libraries that can do a the parsing job we need done such as PDFMiner, PoDoFo, Origami, and the PDF-Reader gem, but we have found Xpdfto be a the best choice for our needs to both view and parse out the data from pdf files when your testing includes doing some validation of the contents of generated pdf files. The 3Qi Labs team decided there had to be a way to automate the extraction and parsing of these PDF’s within our test automation scripts and the search began. pdf formatted file and can be difficult to get at. In our journey through the world of test automation with ruby we have found that sometimes the data we need to validate is locked up in some.
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