How to read PDF file as text file and match a specific word?

Question

Hi all Doing task in c# input as PDF task is about read the PDF file as text and match the specific word. If the specific word is there then I plan to delete the file. I use system.IO to read the file but I don't know how to check the file. Kindly suggest solution for my issue.

Jony Green · Answer

as i know PDFLib can read pdf document and save all the text in the page to txt file. PDFLib is an open source pdf library before starting your code you can try this free online pdf to text service(http://www.online-code.net/pdf-to-word.html) to have a test.

newto net · Answer

I got the solution by reading the pdf file as a text file thanks for your suggestion

Dam Mab · Answer

PDF format is not natively supported in .NET so it will be easier if you use a library that support loading PDF format. Also if the PDF pages contain images of text and not actual text objects you will need to perform OCR on them. You basically have 2 options either go with free offerings on the web such as iTextSharp for PDF and Tessnet2 for OCR and try to get them to work together or use a library that has both PDF and OCR like LeadTools.