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Cobalt Operations Team: Payslip PDF for EMP-03

Payslip PDF for EMP-03 for Cobalt Operations Team. A one-page payslip for Team member 3. The period table runs 1,008.00 gross through three deductions to 734.16 net, the employer-cost table shows 30.24, 77.11 and 63.00 that are not deducted from pay, and the year-to-date table shows 5 periods at 3,670.80 net.

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Specifications

Document Set
payroll
Industry
people-operations
Source Kit
people-operations
Synthetic
true
As Of
2026-09-08
Pages
1
Employee Id
EMP-03
Gross Usd
1008.00
Net Usd
734.16
Employer Cost Shown
true

Testing contract

Expected to pass
Scenario
Extract the three tables and reconcile the period figures with the payroll register and the year-to-date figures with the period ones.
Expected result
The period table reproduces the EMP-03 row of payroll-register.csv exactly, with deductions in accounting parentheses summing to (273.84) and a net of 734.16. The employer costs appear only in their own table and are absent from the deduction total. Each year-to-date figure is 5 times the period figure, matching ytd-earnings.csv.

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How to use this file

Use an example PDF to test text extraction, rendering, metadata parsing, AcroForm handling, and OCR pipelines: checking that extraction reconstructs reading order from glyph positions, that a scanned page yields no text, and that an incremental update leaves earlier revisions in the file.

How to use this file for testing

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Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such, expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.

Document fixtures list their internal structure (pages, fields, tracked changes, embedded objects) in the spec table. Test extractors, converters, and OCR against that known structure, and compare searchable↔scanned or format-twin companions when present.

Code examples

import pdfplumber  # pip install pdfplumber

with pdfplumber.open("payslip-EMP-03.pdf") as pdf:
    print(len(pdf.pages), "pages")
    print(pdf.pages[0].extract_text())

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