Editing pdf in C#.net

Question

Hi All I have a windows application in which am displaying the PDF file in PDF viewer(Adobe Acrobat or Via WebBrowser control). I have EDIT button in the form when i click the edit button i should be able to edit the pdf as like normal text documets... And I have ADD PAGE button when click that a blank page has to be added next to the current page. Can you please help ?

darjeam nh · Answer

Check this article for adding text to blank PDF page in C#  hope this helps :)

Romero Cesar · Answer

Standard .NET classes don't directly support handling PDF Document format. You need to use a programming SDK (like leadtools or itextsharp). Since I am not familiar with itextsharp I will talk about my experience with leadtools functions. This SDK supports loading PDF files extract text and save it back as PDF document format. I am suggesting the following approach using lead tools functions: - Load the PDF file as image (all objects (Text Images hyperlinks etc.) inside the PDF file will be rasterized as one image). - Pass the rasterized image to one of leadtools OCR engines. Lead OCR engines give the ability to define a zone on the image recognize the text edit it and then save it back as PDF document format. You can find more information here: http://support.leadtools.com/CS/forums/31677/ShowPost.aspx

Jayakumar · Answer

Hi R J/Alex Thanks for your replies but i have already referred those references but i am not able to fill my requirement.

Alex Smith · Answer

As RJ said you can try itextsharp or any other 3rd party PDF component..Anyway I recommend you donwloading and evaluating this .NET PDF API (avalible on Codeplex http://pdfapi.codeplex.com/) which enables you to open/read/edit PDF file in any .NET platform.Hope helps. Regards

R J · Answer

see this.. http://simpledotnetsolutions.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/itextsharp-few-c-examples/ you can use itextsharp in your example. Also I have seen similar post in ASP.net forums. http://forums.asp.net/t/1408202.aspx?read+and+edit+pdf+using+c+ This may help you. Place your code if you find any issues.