How to read the data in doc. and pdf

[Suresh Kumar]

How to read the data present in the word document and PDF file using selenium web driver with fire-fox.

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Short answer : You can't. WebDriver interacts with web pages that are loaded within a browser and NOT pdfs.

You may have to figure out ways of downloading your pdf to your local file system and then use libraries such as pdfbox to parse it.

I would recommend that you search through this forum as well. This has been answered in the past.

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On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Suresh Kumar <suri...@gmail.com> wrote:

How to read the data present in the word document and PDF file using selenium web driver with fire-fox.

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[Jordan Trilles]

Hi,

Since Firefox now integrate pdf.js and can read PDF without  a plugin it should be possible to retrieve some data. But the DOM should be horrible to navigate.

Cristallix