How to read contents of a pdf file in MVC4

Question

Hi I am working on MVC4 aspx view engine. Here I am having a requirement where I have to read the contents of the uploaded pdf file and need to to show those in view page controls. For e.g If I read No of items from the pdf file then I have to show the count of items in a textbox. Please help me to overcome. Thanks Mahesh.

Mohamed Abedallah · Answer

The solution depends on the PDF file you use: 1. If the PDF pages are images (without text) you can recognize the text in these images using an OCR engine. 2. If the PDF pages are searchable (Text based) you can parse the objects in the PDF pages and then get the text objects. Since PDF files are not directly supported in .NET Frameworks you can use LEADTOOLS SDK to get the text from PDF. See this link: http://demo.leadtools.com/JavaScript/OCR/

Mahesh Bodepudi · Answer

See the below I need to read many of the fields and need to show in the textbox controls in Create view on submit in the same view after browsing the data.Please help me on this.

darjeam nh · Answer

This article may help http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/1583f2/view-pdf-files-from-web-browser-in-C-Sharp/

Khaja Moizuddin · Answer

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14714486/opening-a-pdf-file-directly-in-my-browser https://www.codeproject.com/Questions/624685/How-to-open-a-pdf-file-in-the-view-page-of-MVC https://www.codeproject.com/Questions/697821/use-PDF-file-in-MVC-application https://www.codeproject.com/Tips/697733/Display-PDF-within-web-browser-using-MVC https://www.aspsnippets.com/Articles/Retrieve-and-display-PDF-Files-from-database-in-browser-in-ASPNet.aspx https://forums.asp.net/t/1408202.aspx?read+and+edit+pdf+using+c+ Refer these blogs for your requirement.

Vivek Kumar · Answer

Hi Mahesh You can use C# code for reading the PDF file with the help of iTextSharp library. Please go through the below links for your reference. http://www.kunalpriyadarshi.com/2012/12/using-itextsharp-to-extract-text-from.html http://www.aspforums.net/Threads/612671/How-to-read-pdf-file-and-extract-contents-using-iTextSharp-in-ASPNet-and-C/ http://www.squarepdf.net/parsing-pdf-files-using-itextsharp http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25424816/how-to-read-a-pdf-file-line-by-line-in-c