How to convert PDF to text file in iTextSharp

Question

I have to retrieve text from PDF file. But using the following code I only get empty text file.

for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
{
    pagenumber = i + 1;
            


        

Answer 1

For text extraction with iTextSharp, take a current version of that library and use

PdfTextExtractor.GetTextFromPage(reader, pageNumber);

Beware, there is a bug in the text extraction code in some 5.3.x version which has meanwhile been fixed in trunk. You, therefore, might want to checkout the trunk revision.