[Feature]: Extract pdf data to text and read the data in playwright

[prasathmscss]

🚀 Feature Request

1) How to Verify text inside pdf file in playwright typescript. 2) Is there any way we can compare two pdf files in playwright.

Example

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Motivation

= Extract pdf data to text and read the data in playwright

[marcusNumminen]

I had the same problem that I wanted to compare two PDF files. What I did was that I used 'pdfToPng' lib to convert all the PDF pages to PNG files and then I used Pixelmatch to compare them then I did an expect that the pixelDiff was 0.

What I think would be great if playwright had expects for comparing PDF using the approach I did above (or at least for PNGs) that would in the report generates the same as expect(page).toHaveScreenshot(myScreenshot.png)

[mxschmitt]

Comparing PDFs is outside of the scope for Playwright. We recommend using Network Events to listen for your PDF file, getting the content via response.body() and then using a third-party library to convert it to text in order to make the assertion.

[prasathmscss]

Thanks @marcusNumminen & @mxschmitt