Question

I’m looking for a way to extract text from a pdf and use it i a program. I’ve done some research on the net and got a few libraries working. These were not freeware; however, en bumbed on there limits.

So i’m looking for a free library. I thought of ITextSharp but i have no idea to get started.
Can you guys help me out here?

Answer 1

Something like should work for you. You have to watch it – they change function names all the time with iTextSharp releases, which is a bit annoying – Lol

public static string GetPDFText(String pdfPath)
{
    PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(pdfPath); 

    StringWriter output = new StringWriter();  

    for (int i = 1; i <= reader.NumberOfPages; i++) 
        output.WriteLine(PdfTextExtractor.GetTextFromPage(reader, i, new SimpleTextExtractionStrategy()));

    return output.ToString();
}