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Sample PDF, 5 pagesClassic · 6.3 KB
Each page is numbered and visibly different, so after splitting, merging or reordering you can tell at a glance where the pages ended up
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11 pages, with photos
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What is inside

Five A4 pages, each clearly numbered
Real text you can select and search (not an image of text)
A table of eight rows, for testing PDF to Excel and PDF to CSV
Document metadata: title, author and subject
A coloured header and rule on every page, so compression artefacts are visible

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About PDF files

PDF (Portable Document Format) was designed by Adobe in 1993 to solve one problem: a document that looks the same everywhere. A PDF carries its own fonts, layout and images, so a page printed in Chennai matches a page printed in Chicago.

That fidelity is also why PDFs are awkward to edit. The format describes where marks go on a page, not what the document means, so "editing a PDF" is closer to editing a photograph of a page than to editing a Word file. Tools that convert PDF to Word are reconstructing structure that was never stored.

A PDF can hold selectable text or only a picture of text. The difference decides whether a search finds anything, whether a screen reader can read it, and whether OCR is needed. This sample holds real text, so extraction has something to find.

Sources: PDF 1.7 specification, ISO 32000-1 (Adobe) · PDF 2.0, ISO 32000-2 (Library of Congress)

Questions

Is this sample PDF free to use?

Yes. It was generated by a script in this site's own source, contains no third-party content, and you can use it for anything: testing, demos, documentation or teaching.

Why is the sample PDF so small?

It is around 6 KB because it is text and vector shapes rather than photographs. That makes it a poor test of compression, which mostly works on images. To test compression properly, use a scanned document or a PDF full of photographs.

Does it contain real text or a scan?

Real, selectable text. Copy from it, search it, or run it through PDF to Text and you will get words back. If you need a scanned PDF to test OCR, print this one to paper and photograph it, or export it as an image and convert that back to PDF.

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For developers: exact bytes and SHA-256

Sizes are decimal (1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes). The hosted files never change between builds, so these checksums stay valid.

File	Bytes	SHA-256
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