how to read/write to pdf from c#

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how to read & write to a pdf from c#

Raheel Ahmad · Answer

Hi Mclean, You can try ByteScout PDF SDK for this purpose, it's very simple and straighforward by using this SDK. Sample code is given as under // Create new Document object Document pdfDocument = new Document(); pdfDocument.RegistrationName = "demo" ; pdfDocument.RegistrationKey = "demo" ; // Load existing document pdfDocument.Load( "sample.pdf" ); // Add new page to loaded document Page page = new Page(PaperFormat.A4); Font font = new Font(StandardFonts.Times, 24); Brush brush = new SolidBrush(); page.Canvas.DrawString( "New Page" , font, brush, 20, 20); pdfDocument.Pages.Add(page); // Save document to file pdfDocument.Save( "result.pdf" ); // Cleanup pdfDocument.Dispose(); // Open document in default PDF viewer app Process.Start( "result.pdf" ); You can find the further details under this link. https://bytescout.com/products/developer/pdfsdk/bytescoutpdf_add_text_to_existing_pdf_document.html

Mohamed Abedallah · Answer

Your question is quite general, so I will try to provide a general useful answer. The easiest way to read and write PDF files is to use a toolkit. You can use LEADTOOLS to read and manipulate PDF files (merge, parse, copy, extract, convert to and from PDF, etc..). For example, if you want to get the text from the PDF file, the code is similar to this: using (var document = DocumentFactory.LoadFromFile(inFile, new LoadDocumentOptions())) { var page = document.Pages[0]; var pageText = page.GetText(); if (pageText != null ) { pageText.BuildText(); var text = pageText.Text; MessageBox.Show(text); } else { MessageBox.Show( "Failed!" ); } } To write PDF, you can either save it as image, or as searchable text (or image-over-text which has both). More details can be found here: https://www.leadtools.com/sdk/pdf

Jignesh Kumar · Answer

Hi Drake, You can use aspose treference which will help to convert any form from PDF or generate PDF Please find below link for same https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44794820/how-to-create-blank-pdf-from-scratch-using-aspose-pdf-for-net http://www.devx.com/dotnet/working-with-aspose.pdf-for-.net.html

Mageshwaran R · Answer

Hi, Please refer the below link, it might helps you https://www.gemboxsoftware.com/document/examples/c-sharp-read-extract-pdf-text/305

Alan Brost · Answer

If you need PDF generation functionality for your .net application, ZetPDF is a .net SDK for adding PDF render and print support in .net applications. It is designed to solve most developer’s needs with regards to PDF rendering. Get in touch today so that we can help you. Please find the link below for all your needs. https://zetpdf.com/

Sanwar Ranwa · Answer

Hello Drake Please check these Links VIDEOS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1b9oZHByyE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22C9N4WP4-s ARTICLES https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/blogs/reading-contents-from-pdf-word-text-files-in-c-sharp1 https://www.inliteresearch.com/barcode-recognition-sdk.php?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0cmLhsvf3gIVhpOPCh3WrA8aEAAYASAAEgLiLfD_BwE

Rahul Prasad · Answer

check the links below, hopefully it will help https://www.e-iceblue.com/Tutorials/Spire.PDF/Spire.PDF-Program-Guide/How-to-Extract-Text-from-PDF-Document-with-C-/VB.NET.html https://www.e-iceblue.com/Tutorials/Spire.PDF/Spire.PDF-Program-Guide/How-to-Draw-Text-in-PDF-with-Different-Styles.html

Laxmidhar Sahoo · Answer

Hi drake Add the reference of itextsharp.dll from the Nugate packages private void button7_Click( object sender, EventArgs e) { ConvertImageToPdf( "D://lotous.jpg" , "D://lotous.pdf" ); } public static void ConvertImageToPdf( string srcFilename, string dstFilename) { iTextSharp.text.Rectangle pageSize = null ; using (var srcImage = new Bitmap(srcFilename)) { pageSize = new iTextSharp.text.Rectangle(0, 0, srcImage.Width, srcImage.Height); } using (var ms = new MemoryStream()) { var document = new iTextSharp.text.Document(pageSize, 0, 0, 0, 0); iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, ms).SetFullCompression(); document.Open(); var image = iTextSharp.text.Image.GetInstance(srcFilename); document.Add(image); document.Close(); File.WriteAllBytes(dstFilename, ms.ToArray()); } }

Chandan Prasad · Answer

Please use the iTextSharp for generating the pdf or any third party tool. and for reading text from pdf. please go through the below link. https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/blogs/reading-contents-from-pdf-word-text-files-in-c-sharp1

how to read/write to pdf from c#

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