How do I use PDFBox with Asp.Net for parsing pdf files with c#?

Question

I recently downloaded PDFBox, and I am trying to figure out how to parse pdf files with it in Asp.Net to no avail, in fact, I don't even know where to start. Has anyone been able to do this in asp.net (C# preferrably)?

Is there any other ways to parse text out of a PDF in Asp.Net?

Answer 1

This link might help: http://renditionprotocol.blogspot.com/2009/01/using-pdfbox-in-c.html

Answer 2

check this out: http://naspinski.net/post/ParsingReading-a-PDF-file-with-C-and-AspNet-to-text.aspx

Answer 3

Hi, that solution is very good but when my pdf file has image incrusted, the code generate a exception. How I solve this problem ?? any ideas??

Thanks for your time and happy code!!

StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(txt_out, false); try { sw.WriteLine(); sw.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToString()); PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load(pdf_in); PDFTextStripper stripper = new PDFTextStripper(); sw.Write(stripper.getText(doc)); } catch (Exception ex) { Response.Write(ex.Message); } finally { sw.Close();