Validate PDF data in selenium using java in firefox browser

There are many web applications which acknowledges some operation by  showing pdf file(like order confirmation receipt in pdf document) . Few days before I stuck when i was automating such scenario which shows pdf file using selenium , so i did some research on this and written following blog .Following code will help you to automate the pdf data validation.


You can download required java library from this link :

http://itextpdf.com/download.php


To automatically download the PDF file .
We need to do following settings in firefox .
1. Go to Tools
2.Go to options.
3. Select Applications.
4.Select Adobe Acrobat Document
5. Select action is Save File.  
Please refer following java code . Please let me know if you need more explanation :

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;

import com.itextpdf.awt.geom.Rectangle;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfReader;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser.FilteredTextRenderListener;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser.LocationTextExtractionStrategy;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser.PdfTextExtractor;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser.RegionTextRenderFilter;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser.RenderFilter;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.parser.TextExtractionStrategy;




public class PDFReader {

    public static String folderName="C:\\Users\\gurushant\\Downloads\\";
    public static final String pdfName=folderName+ "myPdfFile";
    public static final String outputFileName=folderName + "myFile.doc";
   
   
    /**
     * @param args
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
       
        String data[]={"DataTobeValidated_1","DataTobeValidated_2","DataTobeValidated_3"};
         PDFReader pdf=new PDFReader();
         pdf.readPDFData();
         pdf.verifyData(data);
    }



void readPDFData()
{
    try {
        PdfReader reader=new PdfReader(pdfName);
        PrintWriter out=new PrintWriter(new FileOutputStream(outputFileName));
        Rectangle rect=new Rectangle(0, 0, 1000, 1000);
        RenderFilter filter=new RegionTextRenderFilter(rect);
        TextExtractionStrategy strategy;
       
        for (int i = 1; i <= reader.getNumberOfPages(); i++) {
            strategy = new FilteredTextRenderListener(new LocationTextExtractionStrategy(), filter);
            out.println(PdfTextExtractor.getTextFromPage(reader, i, strategy));
        }
        out.flush();
        out.close();
        //GetAllImages.main(null);
         
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

void verifyData(String data[])
{
try
{
   
    BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(outputFileName)));
    StringBuilder stringData=new StringBuilder();
   
    String line=null;
   
    while((line=br.readLine())!=null)
    {
        stringData.append(line);
    }
   
    for(int i=0;i<data.length;i++)
    {
        String txt=data[i];
        if(stringData.indexOf(txt) >0)
        {
            System.out.println( txt + " contains in order confirmation");
        }
        else
        {
            System.out.println( txt + " does not contains in order confirmation");
        }
       
    }
    br.close();
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
    }
}}