Download free sample PDFs instantly — every file is generated locally in your browser. No upload, no server, no login.
Common sizes — for testing upload limits, storage quotas & processing performance
Different content structures — for testing parsers, viewers, extractors & OCR pipelines
Specific page counts — for testing PDF renderers, paginators & document readers
Build exactly the file you need — generated entirely in your browser
| Type | Selectable Text | Searchable | Embedded Images | Tables | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text Only | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ✗ No | ✗ No | Text extraction, compression, search indexing |
| Table Data | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ✗ No | ✓ Yes | Table parsers, data scrapers, export testing |
| Mixed Content | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes (color blocks) | ✓ Yes | General-purpose viewers, layout renderers |
| Invoice Layout | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ✗ No | ✓ Yes | Invoice parsers, accounts payable, IDP pipelines |
| Scanned Simulation | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✓ Yes (rasterized JPEG) | ✗ No | OCR testing, scanned document workflows, larger files |
What are sample PDF files used for?
Sample PDFs — sometimes called dummy PDFs or test PDFs — are placeholder files used whenever you need a real PDF without using real documents. The most common use cases are testing file upload forms (to verify size limits, type validation, and error handling), checking how a PDF viewer renders different content types, stress-testing document processing pipelines, and providing example files in documentation or developer tutorials.
QA engineers use them in automated test suites, developers use them to validate API integrations, and students use them as placeholder attachments in coursework and mock projects.
What is the difference between a text PDF and a scanned PDF?
A text PDF (sometimes called a native PDF or born-digital PDF) contains an embedded text layer. The text is fully selectable, searchable, and extractable by tools like PDF.js, pdfplumber, Apache PDFBox, or any PDF reader. These are the files produced when you export a Word document, generate a PDF from code, or use a PDF printer.
A scanned PDF is an image-only file — each page is a photograph or raster image (usually JPEG or TIFF) embedded inside a PDF container. There is no text layer, so nothing can be selected or searched. You need an OCR engine like Tesseract to extract text from it. The scanned simulation files on this page mimic that structure exactly, making them ideal for testing OCR pipelines and document intelligence workflows.
How do I test a file upload size limit?
Open the By File Size tab and download a PDF close to your upload threshold. For example, if your form rejects files above 5 MB, download both the 2 MB and 5 MB samples to test where the cutoff actually fires. Because the files are generated locally, you can get any size instantly without searching for or uploading real documents.
For very precise size testing, use the Custom Generator with the Scanned Simulation type, which produces predictably large files (~150 KB per page). Set the page count to hit your target size — for example, 34 pages gives roughly 5 MB.
Can I get a PDF with a specific number of pages?
Yes. The By Page Count tab covers the most common counts: 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, and 250 pages. For anything else, open the Custom Generator, type in any number between 1 and 500, choose your content type, and click Generate. The file is built in your browser and downloads immediately.
Are these PDF files safe to use in my project or test suite?
Yes. Every file is generated entirely in your browser using the open-source jsPDF library — no data is sent to any server, no files are stored remotely, and no account is required. The files contain only lorem ipsum text, synthetic table data, and sample invoice figures. There is no real personal information, no embedded scripts, and no external links — just clean, standard PDF 1.4 content.
What PDF version do the generated files use?
All files are generated as PDF 1.4, which is compatible with essentially every PDF viewer, parser, and processing library in active use — including Adobe Acrobat, PDF.js, Foxit, Chrome's built-in viewer, pdfplumber, PyPDF2, iTextSharp, Apache PDFBox, and Ghostscript. If you specifically need a different version such as PDF/A for archiving or PDF 2.0, you would need a conversion tool after downloading.
What is an invoice PDF sample used for?
Invoice sample PDFs are primarily used to test intelligent document processing (IDP) systems, accounts payable automation, and OCR-based data extraction pipelines. They contain structured content — a header, line items with quantities and rates, a subtotal, tax, and a total due — that exercises the field-extraction logic in document AI tools. They are also useful for testing PDF viewers that need to handle real-world business document layouts, and for generating realistic placeholder attachments in demo environments.
Can I use these files in automated tests or CI/CD pipelines?
Yes. Download the files you need and commit them to your test fixtures directory. They behave like any real-world PDF and work with any testing framework. If you need dynamically generated PDFs in your pipeline without a browser, jsPDF also runs in Node.js — you can use the same library server-side to generate test files programmatically during your build or test run.