[ask]Reading PDF file using C#

[pradana]

Hello C# developers,

I got a task developing a console program to parse a PDF file and extract information from it (mainly text).

Do anybody know how to do it?

Thanks a lot.

[saktya]

google it... and you`ll found it...

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/MgPDFReader.asp

http://www.codeproject.com/cs/samples/pdf2text.asp

[pradana]

Hello again...

I've already used iTextSharp .NET library to extract text from PDF, and it works quite good although some PDF files are unreadable...

Now I got a new challenge to extract images/pictures from PDF. Is there any library capable doing this?

Thanks a lot.

[Tischnoetentoet]

You should really consider commercial packages if you want to read/modify pdf files, such as this one (http://www.pdftron.com/net/index.html) (just googled it).

[pradana]

I've been looking at PDFNet before, but it's too costly for me... and I've done days of googling as well.

Maybe in this forum there's sombody having experienced with PDF reading/parsing or using iTextSharp before to read through PDF?