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To Read A PDF File and Integrate It Into Dot Net Application

The document provides instructions on how to read a PDF file and extract text using the iTextSharp library in a .NET application. It includes steps for installing the library via NuGet and a sample C# code snippet to demonstrate the text extraction process. Users are advised to replace the placeholder path with the actual path to their PDF file for successful execution.

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To Read A PDF File and Integrate It Into Dot Net Application

The document provides instructions on how to read a PDF file and extract text using the iTextSharp library in a .NET application. It includes steps for installing the library via NuGet and a sample C# code snippet to demonstrate the text extraction process. Users are advised to replace the placeholder path with the actual path to their PDF file for successful execution.

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To read a PDF file and integrate it into a .

NET application, you can use a


PDF parsing library. One popular library for working with PDFs in .NET is
iTextSharp. Below is an example of how you can use iTextSharp to read a
PDF file and extract text from it in a .NET application.

First, you'll need to install the iTextSharp library. You can do this using
NuGet Package Manager Console:

Install-Package itext7

Then, you can use the following C# code to read a PDF file and extract text:

using System;
using System.IO;
using iText.Kernel.Pdf;
using iText.Kernel.Pdf.Canvas.Parser;
using iText.Kernel.Pdf.Canvas.Parser.Listener;

class Program
{
static void Main()
{
string pdfFilePath = "path/to/your/file.pdf";

if (File.Exists(pdfFilePath))
{
string pdfText = ExtractTextFromPdf(pdfFilePath);
Console.WriteLine(pdfText);

// You can now update your .NET application with the extracted text as
needed.
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("PDF file not found.");
}
}

static string ExtractTextFromPdf(string pdfFilePath)


{
using (PdfReader pdfReader = new PdfReader(pdfFilePath))
{
using (PdfDocument pdfDocument = new PdfDocument(pdfReader))
{
string text = "";
for (int pageNum = 1; pageNum <= pdfDocument.GetNumberOfPages();
pageNum++)
{
var strategy = new SimpleTextExtractionStrategy();
PdfCanvasProcessor parser = new PdfCanvasProcessor(strategy);
parser.ProcessPageContent(pdfDocument.GetPage(pageNum));
text += strategy.GetResultantText();
}

return text;
}
}
}
}

Replace "path/to/your/file.pdf" with the actual path to your PDF file. This code
uses iTextSharp to extract text from each page of the PDF document. You can
then use the text variable as needed in your .NET application.

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