Extract Text from PDF in C#

Question

Hi,

I want to extract text from PDF in C# asp.net. I am using this code as following link ::

Link:: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/PDFToText.aspx

But this code is not working properly. The main problem is that when i get output file they have no that content which are in Inputfile.

Is there any way to resolve this problem ?

Please help me.

Thanks in advance.

Pankaj

Answer 1

you can try to use PDFLib, it's an open source library, can extract text from pdf pages. before your coding, you can go to this free online pdf text extractor(http://www.online-code.net/pdf-to-word.html) to have a test, it's using PDFLib.

Answer 2

Using iTextsharp, you can easily read the text from Pdf file in Asp.Net.

Answer 3

I happened to being working on pdf processing, i just finished my pdf programming a week ago, for you problem, i can share may source code of extracting text from pdf in c# with you, hope you can get some useful help.

Answer 4

There is a C# library called SharpPDF  and I think one called iTextSharp.  iTextSharp can be used to read a pdf file
 
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("In.PDF");
 
Then extract the images, not sure about how to do the text, but it should point you in the right direction:http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=530736
 
-Mike