Extracting text from PDFs in C# [closed]

Answer 1

Take a look at Tika on DotNet, available through Nuget: https://www.nuget.org/packages/TikaOnDotnet.TextExtractor/

This is a wrapper around the extremely good Tika java library, using IKVM. Very easy to use and handles a wide variety of file types other than PDF, including old and new office formats. It will auto-select the parser based on the file extension, so it's as easy as:

var text = new TextExtractor().Extract(file.FullName).Text;

Update: One caution with this solution is that development on IKVM has ended. I'm not sure what this will mean in the long run. http://weblog.ikvm.net/2017/04/21/TheEndOfIKVMNET.aspx