Read PDF file content into string

Note:- This article is mainly intended to read content from a PDF file and convert that into a string using C#.

The following steps will guide you to read content from a PDF file:

1. To start with this, you need to download itextsharp-all-5.2.1, which can be download from here.
2. Extract the whole archive (inside itextsharp-all-5.2.1 folder also) to your local directory.
3. Create a new Console Project.
4.  Add itextsharp-all-5.2.1.dll as reference.
5. the following Code is :
   
   
6. using System;
   using System.Collections.Generic;
   using System.ComponentModel;
   using System.Data;
   using System.Drawing;
   using System.Linq;
   using System.Text;
   using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
   using iTextSharp.text.pdf.parser;
   
   
   namespace pdf2Text2
   {
     public  class Program      
       {
         static string pdfFile = @"D:\oshAden.pdf";
           static void Main(string[] args)
           {          
               ExtractTextFromPDFPage(pdfFile, 1);
           }
           public static void ExtractTextFromPDFPage(string pdfFile, int pageNumber)
           {
               PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(pdfFile);
               int pageNum = reader.NumberOfPages;
               StringBuilder sb= new StringBuilder ();
               for (int i = 1; i <= pageNum; i++)
               {
                   sb.AppendLine(PdfTextExtractor.GetTextFromPage(reader, i));
               }
   
   
               try { reader.Close(); }
               catch { }
               Console.WriteLine(sb);
               Console.ReadLine();
           }
       }
   }
   
   
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   Enjoy.