Recently I was doing contributing to C# corner forums, and there is requirement user wants to read and the same time speaks PDF, to finish this requirement I read PDF file using iTextSharp and Speak that file using System.Speech
- private string ExtractTextFromPdf()
- {
- if (fileUploadSelectFile.HasFile)
- {
- string filename = Server.MapPath(path: "~/FileToRead/") + fileUploadSelectFile.FileName.ToString();
-
- using (PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(filename))
- {
- var text = new StringBuilder();
-
- for (int i = 1; i <= reader.NumberOfPages; i++)
- {
- text.Append(PdfTextExtractor.GetTextFromPage(reader, i));
- }
- return text.ToString();
- }
- }
- else
- return "Please select file";
- }
- protected void btnSpeak_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
- {
-
- string textToRead;
- textToRead = ExtractTextFromPdf();
- var speakMe = new SpeechSynthesizer();
-
- speakMe.Volume = 100;
-
- speakMe.SpeakAsync(textToRead);
- }
Please find the attached full project.