Any good *free* PDF Libraries for VB.NET?

[Mr. Taco]

Any good *free* PDF Libraries for VB.NET?

Free as in a loose licensing agreement (GPL, BSD, et al); free as in $0
would be excellent too. Or even one that is worth buying and not $3000.

All the ones I've found aren't being maintained anymore or are for C#
which I haven't gotten in to yet.

I want to create a utility to redact certain phrases from PDFs.

Thanks.

-Taco

 

[Tom Shelton]

Any good *free* PDF Libraries for VB.NET?

Free as in a loose licensing agreement (GPL, BSD, et al); free as in $0
would be excellent too. Or even one that is worth buying and not $3000.

All the ones I've found aren't being maintained anymore or are for C#
which I haven't gotten in to yet.

What do you mean "are for C#"? If it's in .NET - then, it should work in
VB.NET. In other words, just because the source of the component is in C#,
doesn't mean it is for C#.

 

[Colbert Zhou [MSFT]]

Hello Taco,

Both C# and VB.NET are .NET based programming languages. No matter the
library is generated by VB.NET or C#, it is called .NET assembly and can be
referenced and used in both of C# and VB.NET project.

A quick research finds out the following ones,
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/graphics/giospdfnetlibrary.aspx
http://samples.syncfusion.com/ASPNET/7.1.0.30/Web/PDF.web/samples/3.5/defaul
t.aspx?gclid=CNu_rvrogJoCFQSwFQodlCB2Fg

And actually, instead of a PDF library, we can do Word automation to
generate a Word document and convert it to PDF using the Document.
ExportAsFixedFormat() function.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb256835.aspx


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[Mr. Taco]

These are both for PDF generation as output, I'm looking to import and
manipulate PDFs.

I'm guessing it's going to have to be converted in to an intermediary
format (XML??) and manipulated and then it can be converted back to PDF
with one of these tools. What tool can I use to decode/extract the PDF
content? Keeping the original formatting, images, and table is going to
be the critical part of the process.

-Taco

 

[Rick]

Check iTextSharp. Excellent Free product.

Rick

 

[Mr. Taco]

Good call, that looks pretty sweet. Thanks.

-Taco