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?
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