Getting Started

After adding a reference to the library to your project, you are ready to start writing code to convert PDF to text in your .NET application. You can copy the C# code lines from the section below to extract the text from a PDF document to a .NET string and search text in a PDF document and get all its locations in PDF pages.

C# Code Samples

At the top of your C# source file add the using Winnovative.PdfToText; statement to make available the Winnovative PDF to Text API for your .NET application.

// add this using statement at the top of your C# file
using Winnovative.PdfToText;

To extract all the text from a PDF file to a .NET String and save the extracted text to a file you can use the C# code below.

// create the converter object in your code where you want to run conversion
PdfToTextConverter converter = new PdfToTextConverter();

// extract the text from PDF
string extractedText = converter.ConvertToText("my_pdf_file_path");

// write the .NET string to a text file
System.IO.File.WriteAllText("PdfToText.txt", extractedText, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);

To search a text in a PDF file and retrieve all its locations in PDF pages you can use the C# code below.

// create the converter object in your code where you want to run conversion
PdfToTextConverter converter = new PdfToTextConverter();

// search text with case sensitive and whole word options
string textToFind = "PDF";
bool caseSensitive = false;
bool wholeWord = false;
FindTextLocation[] locations = converter.FindText("my_pdf_file_path", textToFind, caseSensitive, wholeWord);

// use the found text locations
foreach (FindTextLocation location in locations)
{
    float textXPos = location.X; 
    float textYPos = location.Y;
    float textWidth = location.Width;
    float textHeight = location.Height;
}

Free Trial

You can download the Winnovative PDF to Text Converter for .NET evaluation package from Winnovative Software Downloads page of the website.

The evaluation package for .NET contains the product binaries and demo web and desktop projects with full C# code for .NET Framework and .NET Core.

You can evaluate the library for free as long as needed to ensure that the solution fits your application needs.

Licensing

The Winnovative Software licenses are perpetual which means they never expire for a version of the product and include free maintenance for the first year. You can find more details about licensing on the website.

Support

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