How to load a PDF blob?

Hi, could some one help me with the steps to loading a DPF file into a table. In this table I have a column which is a BLOB datatype where I would like to store these PDF's.
Any help would be greatly appriciated!
Thanks for your time.

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE load_pdf_blob IS
dest_loc BLOB;
src_loc BFILE;
Amount INTEGER;
new_dir string(1000) := 'test_dir';
new_file string(1000) := 'test_pdf.pdf';
BEGIN
src_loc := BFileName(new_dir,new_file);
Amount := dbms_lob.getlength(src_loc);
insert into test_pdf (sno,pdf_file)
values (seq_val,empty_blob());
DBMS_LOB.OPEN(src_loc, DBMS_LOB.LOB_READONLY);
DBMS_LOB.OPEN(dest_loc, DBMS_LOB.LOB_READWRITE);
DBMS_LOB.LOADFROMFILE(dest_loc, src_loc, Amount);
DBMS_LOB.CLOSE(dest_loc);
DBMS_LOB.CLOSE(src_loc);
COMMIT;
END load_pdf_blob;
/

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