Does anyone know of a way to easily convert a PDF to a docx format programmatically

Question

We have a couple 3rd party systems that give us PDFs. We would like to convert those PDFs for display on the web without using an Adobe product. Ideally we would like to u

Answer 1

Another option, if you don't actually need to change anything in the pdf documents you can use pdf.js which renders pdf documents as html 5. For more info please see this blog post.

http://andreasgal.com/2011/06/15/pdf-js/

Answer 2

There are a number of converters from PDF to XPS which is a subset of XAML.

[update] some reference links

• What Is The Structure Of a XPS File
• XPS or XAML viewer to embed in .NET app?

Answer 3

Convert PDF to SVG (ghostscript will do it) and import that as a series of images: I'm not a .net programmer, but I understand that can be done with the system.io.packaging class, which, for what it's worth, is implemented outside of .net by the Mono project.

Answer 4

Aspose sells .Net converter libraries.