#PDF Extract

As part of integration-testing I needed to extract text from PDF's - all existing solutions was either too cumbersome or had a wierd API.

PDF Extract works by executing an external executable (Win64 only!) - but is fully self-contained and only exposes streams to the outside world.

Internally it uses Xpdf.

How to

To extract text simply use provided extractor-class (here from a file):

using (var pdfStream = File.OpenRead("my.pdf"))
using (var extractor = new Extractor())
{
    var extractedText = extractor.ExtractToString(pdfStream);
}

Or extract from/to a stream

using (var extractor = new Extractor())
{
    using (var rawTextStream = extractor.ExtractText(pdfStream))
        /// ...
}

Install

Simply add the Nuget package:

PM> Install-Package pdf-extract

Requirements

You'll need .NET Framework 4.5.1 or later on 64 bit Windows to use the precompiled binaries.

License

PDF Extract is licensed under the GNU General Pulbic License (GPL), version 2 or 3 similar to Xpdf.