PdfTextExtractor

Simple C# library for extracting text and metadata from .docx, .pptx, and .xlsx files

PdfTextExtractor provides simple methods for extracting text and metadata from .pdf files.

New in v1.0.x

• Initial release

Disclaimer

This library is a shell wrapper leveraging an excellent Python library called pdfplumber. As such there are some constraints:

• You must have Python v3.8, 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11 installed
• Python must be accessible in your path as py
• You must pip install pdfplumber and associated dependencies

This library has been tested on a limited set of documents. It is highly likely that documents exist this from which the library, in its current state, cannot extract text.

Simple Examples

Refer to the Test project for a full example.

using DocumentTextExtractor; void Main(string[] args) { using (PdfTextExtractor pdf = new PdfTextExtractor("mydocument.docx")) { string text = docx.ExtractText(); Dictionary<string, string> metadata = docx.ExtractMetadata(); } }