Sample PDF 5MB File
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File details
| Format | |
| Extension | |
| MIME type | application/pdf |
| Size | 5 MB |
| Exact bytes | 5,242,880 |
| Filename | TestFile-pdf-5mb.pdf |
| Format version | PDF 1.3 |
| Contents | 20-page A4 document: H1/H2/H3 headings, lorem ipsum body text, tables, image placeholders, and footer page numbers throughout |
| Encoding | FlateDecode stream compression; Helvetica font subset embedded |
What is a 5MB PDF file useful for?
A 5 MB PDF (~20 pages) shifts testing focus from correctness to performance. Use it to benchmark PyMuPDF, PDFMiner, or pdf.js rendering time, to verify that your upload API's timeout is generous enough for legitimate large documents without being so permissive it hangs on corrupt uploads, and to measure thumbnail generation latency across a realistic page count. It is also the right size to confirm that your backend streams PDFs to storage rather than buffering them fully in RAM before writing.
What's inside this file?
A 20-page A4 document generated with fpdf2. The extended page count exercises multi-page cross-reference table generation and page-tree traversal in PDF reader libraries. Content structure per page is consistent: H1/H2/H3 headings, lorem ipsum body paragraphs, a formatted table, and an image placeholder. The cross-reference table and page tree at this scale are representative of real-world multi-section business documents.
Download via curl
curl -L "http://localhost:8000/files/pdf/TestFile-pdf-5mb.pdf" \ -o TestFile-pdf-5mb.pdf
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