About Novus Examples

Novus Examples is a free library of real, downloadable example and test files — think “lorem ipsum for files.” It exists to give developers, QA engineers, and anyone evaluating a tool a set of reproducible fixtures with documented, known properties.

Generated, not collected

Every file is produced by a deterministic script, not gathered from the web. That is the whole idea. Because a script made each file, it ships with an exact specification, a fixed random seed where randomness is involved, and — where it helps — a paired counterpart for before/after testing. It also means the entire library is copyright-clean and free for any use.

Documented and paired

Competitors hand you “a PDF.” We hand you a documented PDF with its form fields listed and a paired image-only scan for OCR testing. Every file page shows exactly what the file is, and files that belong together — clean and noisy, colour and greyscale, source and scanned — link to each other. Browse the library by category or by testing purpose.

Part of Novus Stream Solutions

Novus Examples is a project of Novus Stream Solutions, which builds a range of file and media tools. The library doubles as the QA fixture source for those tools — the same denoise ladders, format sets, and audio references we use to test our own products are the ones published here for you to use.