# PDF TESTING

## Validate every PDF like you validate any other page

Applitools checks PDFs against your approved baseline with Visual AI, run as a batch job in Eyes or opened directly inside a flow in Autonomous, so a broken table, a missing clause, or a wrong figure shows up before a statement, contract, or disclosure reaches a customer.

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## Catch what manual review misses

Dense tables, footnotes, and wrapped legal text hide layout shifts a quick skim won't catch. Visual AI checks every element on every page.

## Validate full batches, not samples

Run one job against every PDF a system generates instead of spot-checking a handful and assuming the rest are correct.

## Skip the manual side-by-side

Applitools flags the exact page and region that changed, so reviewers stop lining up two PDFs and comparing them line by line.

## How Applitools validates every PDF

## Open PDFs in the flow you already wrote

**No separate pipeline** Set a PDF as your test's start URL, or click through to one mid-flow. Autonomous renders it and tests it, with no download step, no separate image-comparison tool, and no script to stitch the results together.

**One flow, every check** Text assertions, page navigation, and visual checkpoints all run inside the same flow you already built for the rest of your app.

## Check exact language on exact pages

**Text assertions by page** Confirm page one contains "Total Amount," or that the disclosure on page twelve reads correctly, without opening the file by hand.

**Fillable form support** Fill and validate PDF form fields with the same commands you already use for web forms.

## Validate files your users upload, not just ones you generate

**No local files, no fixtures to manage** Upload a PDF once through the File Management Dashboard, then reference it from any test step. Autonomous injects the file at run time, so the test behaves the same in every environment.

**Scope the check to what matters** Use the Regions Only match level to assert on just the uploaded document thumbnail or preview panel, so unrelated screen changes don't add noise to the result.

## Review results in plain English, not pixels

**Diff descriptions** Every difference is classified into a sentence, like "Font family was changed from Calibri to Arial," instead of a highlighted region you have to interpret yourself.

**Group a batch by what changed** Regroup an entire batch by diff description with one click, so a single formatting change across dozens of documents reads as one explanation, not dozens of tickets.

## Integrate Applitools into your tech stack

Applitools works with 50+ major testing frameworks and languages, source code tools, CI/CD tools, and collaboration tools.

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## What backs up every PDF result

# 1

## Broad format coverage

Extend the same checks across web, native mobile, and PDF documents, so an issue doesn't slip through in a format you didn't think to test.

# 2

## No-code and code authoring

Build a PDF check in plain English, record a flow, or write code directly, so QA can add coverage without pulling in an engineer.

# 3

## Local AI processing

Visual comparisons run locally within your environment. Document content, including anything in the PDF, is never sent to an external model or used for training.

# 4

## Deterministic Language Model

The same input always produces the same output in every locale, every run, so a result is something you can explain and trust.

# 5

## Human-eye simulation

Visual AI ignores rendering noise like anti-aliasing and sub-pixel shifts, and flags only the differences a real user would notice.

# 6

## Root cause analysis

See the exact page, region, and diff description behind a failure, so you know if it's a data problem or a real layout bug.

## Test every PDF before your customers ever see it

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