EVO PDF to Image Library for .NET
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EVO PDF to Image Library for .NET (Classic) can be used in .NET Framework, .NET Core and .NET Standard applications to convert PDF pages to images.

You can see the https://www.evopdf.com/evopdf-pdf-to-image-dotnet product page for a complete list of library features.

This package is compatible with .NET Framework, .NET Core and .NET Standard 2.0 on Windows platforms.

For applications that need to run on both Windows and Linux platforms, you can use the EvoPdf.Next.PdfProcessor package, which allows you to extract text and images from PDF documents, search text in PDF documents and convert PDF pages to images.

Main Features
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* Convert PDF pages to images
* Create thumbnails of PDF pages
* Convert PDF documents to multipage TIFF images
* Customize the color space and resolution of generated images
* Convert PDF pages to images in memory or to image files in a folder
* Save PDF page images in various image formats
* Support for password-protected PDF documents
* Convert only a range of PDF pages to images
* Get the number of pages in a PDF document
* Get the PDF document title, keywords, author and description
* Does not require Adobe Reader or other third-party tools

Compatibility
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The compatibility list includes the following .NET versions, platforms and application types:

* .NET Framework 4.0 and above
* .NET 10, 9, 8, 7, 6
* .NET Standard 2.0
* Windows platforms
* Azure App Service
* Azure Cloud Services and Azure Virtual Machines
* Web, Console and Desktop applications

Getting Started
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You can quickly start with the demo applications from the Samples folder of this package or integrate the library into your own project.

Reference the Library in .NET Framework Projects
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In your .NET Framework project add a reference to the EvoPdfToImage.dll assembly from the Lib/net40 folder of this package or to the EvoPdf.PdfToImage NuGet package.

Reference the Library in .NET Core Projects
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In your .NET Core project add a reference to the EvoPdf.PdfToImage NuGet package.

Alternatively you can reference the EvoPdfToImage_NetCore.dll library directly from the Lib/netstandard2.0 folder of this package, but in this case you also have to manually reference the dependencies of the EvoPdf.PdfToImage package for .NET Standard 2.0.

After adding a reference to the library to your project, you are ready to start writing code to convert PDF to Image in your .NET application.
You can copy the C# code lines from the section below to convert PDF pages from a PDF file to image files, to a single multipage TIFF file or to image objects in memory.

C# Code Samples
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At the top of your C# source file add the 'using EvoPdf.PdfToImage;' statement to make available the EVO PDF to Image API for your .NET application.

	// add this using statement at the top of your C# file
	using EvoPdf.PdfToImage;

To convert all PDF pages from a PDF file to image files in folder you can use the C# code below.

	// create the converter object in your code where you want to run conversion
	PdfToImageConverter converter = new PdfToImageConverter();
	
	// convert the PDF pages to images in a folder
	converter.ConvertPdfPagesToImageFile("my_pdf_file_path", "output_folder_path", "image_file_name_prefix");

To convert all PDF pages from a PDF file to a single multipage TIFF file you can use the C# code below.

	// create the converter object in your code where you want to run conversion
	PdfToImageConverter converter = new PdfToImageConverter();
	
	// convert the PDF pages to a multipage TIFF file
	converter.ConvertPdfToTiffFile("my_pdf_file_path", "pdf_to_image.tiff");

To convert all PDF pages from a PDF file to images in memory for further processing you can use the C# code below.

	// create the converter object in your code where you want to run conversion
	PdfToImageConverter converter = new PdfToImageConverter();
	
	// convert the PDF pages to images in memory
	PdfPageImage[] pdfPageImages = converter.ConvertPdfPagesToImage("my_pdf_file_path");

Free Trial
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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
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The EVO PDF 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 https://www.evopdf.com/buy page of the website.

Support
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For technical and sales questions or for general inquiries about our software and company you can contact us using the email addresses from https://www.evopdf.com/contact page of the website.

