Is there a good library for extracting text from a PDF? I'm willing to pay for it if I have to.
Something that works with C# or classic ASP (VBScript) would be ideal and I also need to be able to separate the pages from the PDF.
This question had some interesting stuff, especially pdftotext but I'd like to avoid calling to an external command-line app if I can.
Here is a good list: Open Source Libs for PDF/C#
Most of these are geared toward creating PDFs, but they should have read capability as well.
There is this one as well: iText
I have only played with iText before. Nothing major.
You can use the IFilter interface built into Windows to extract text and properties (author, title, etc.) from any supported file type. It's a COM interface so you would have use the .NET interop facilities.
You'd also have to download the free PDF IFilter driver from Adobe.