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could/should we use pdfgrep for tool-tests #2711

Open bgruening opened 4 years ago

bgruening commented 4 years ago

What do you all think about depending on https://pdfgrep.org and use that to write tool tests? There are also some python libraries that can do similar things.

The aim is to have more reliable automated PDF output testing.

bernt-matthias commented 4 years ago

Maybe :) or like so https://github.com/JoshData/pdf-diff

Also it might be fancy to be able to specify package/format specific diff tools to compare. For instance OpenMS uses their FuzzyDiff program to compare the various outputs in their tests.