Free Sample Files
Download clean, safe test files in 23 formats — PDF, DOCX, XLSX, JPG, PNG, WebP, MP3, MP4, CSV, JSON, ZIP and more. Used by developers, QA engineers and students to test apps, converters and viewers.
Finding a Clean Test File Is Harder Than It Should Be
Anyone who has tried to test a file uploader, a converter or a media player has run into the same annoying gap — the internet has plenty of PDFs and MP4s, but almost none of them are actually meant for testing. A random document pulled off a search result comes with unknown provenance, weird embedded metadata, or content nobody wants showing up in a demo by accident. These 23 sample files exist specifically to close that gap: predictable, purpose-built files in every common format, with content that's exactly what it claims to be and nothing else hiding inside it. QA engineers wire these straight into automated test suites for exactly that reason — a test that depends on a file's content staying consistent breaks the moment that file quietly changes, which is a real, recurring problem with pulling test fixtures from random public sources instead of a dedicated, stable set built for the job.
Documents That Actually Test What They Should
The PDF samples aren't interchangeable despite all being PDFs — Sample PDF File is a clean, simple baseline, Sample PDF Form includes real fillable fields (text boxes, checkboxes, radio buttons) specifically for testing form-handling code, and Sample Scanned PDF is deliberately image-only with no selectable text, exactly the input an OCR pipeline needs to be tested against honestly. The document samples extend that same logic further — Sample XLSX ships with actual formulas and multiple sheets rather than one flat table, Sample JSON includes nested objects and arrays instead of a trivial flat structure, and Sample CSV, DOCX, PPTX and XML each carry the kind of structure a real parser needs to handle correctly, not just a token file that happens to open.
Images, Audio, Video and Everything Else
Image samples cover JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF and SVG — PNG specifically includes transparency for testing how an editor or converter handles an alpha channel, and GIF is genuinely animated rather than a single static frame mislabeled. Audio and video samples follow the same principle: Sample MP3, WAV and OGG cover the three formats browsers actually differ on support for, and Sample MP4, WebM and MKV do the same for video, each useful for confirming a player or converter handles a specific codec and container rather than assuming MP4 support means every format works. Sample ZIP, TXT and HTML round out the set for archive extraction, plain text handling, and testing how a browser or scraper handles a page with real CSS and JavaScript attached. Every file across all six groups downloads directly with no signup wall in front of it — the entire point is removing friction from a testing workflow, not adding another account to create before getting the one file that was actually needed.
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