Can anyone recommend a good PDF reading library for .Net?

Question

Can anyone recommend a good component for reading PDFs from .Net? Specifically, I want to read all the metadata of the document, including all the document properties (title, author, etc.). I really don't need to read the actual content of the document.

Commercial products are fine.

I read about PDFBox (for Java), but that seems painful. I've also been to this page, but nothing great jumped out at me.

Answer 1

You could look at CoherentPDF.

Answer 2

What about iTextSharp? As far as I know its the definitive pdf library.

Answer 3

Have you looked at ABC.pdf? It definitely does was you want, reading pdf document properties - see here

Answer 4

For .Net there is the PDF Lib (current version 1.3). It looks fine (but i've not tested it yet).