EVO Classic PDF to Text Converter for .NET
EVO Classic PDF to Text Converter for .NET allows you to extract text from PDF documents and to search for text in PDF documents. Integration with existing .NET applications is extremely easy and no installation is necessary to run the converter. The downloaded archive contains the .NET assembly and ready-to-use samples for text extraction and text search.
The full C# source code for the sample application is available in the Samples folder. The conversion result is a .NET String object that you can further manipulate. The Classic library 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 PDF to Text for .NET which enables text extraction from PDF documents in the original layout or optimized for reading, as well as text search in PDF documents that returns the exact positions of the matches.
The full EvoPdf Next Library for .NET can be used on Windows, Linux, Azure and Docker platforms to create, edit and merge PDF documents, convert HTML to PDF or images, convert Word, Excel, RTF and Markdown to PDF, extract text and images from PDF documents, search for text in PDF documents and convert PDF pages to images.
The code below was taken from the PDF to Text demo application available for download in the PDF to Text Converter archive. In this example an instance of the PdfToTextConverter class is constructed and used to extract the text from a PDF document into a .NET String object.
The resulted text is saved in a file on disk using the UTF-8 encoding.