in-memory pdf2text?

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Allan Ebdrup

I would like to have a class library in dotNet, where I have an in-memory
bytestream of a pdf file and I want to convert it to a string (extract the
text from the file).

A method like this in C#:

public string Pdf2Text(byte[] pdfFile){ ... }

Is this something you can provide or do you know any place where I can buy a
class library with this kind of functionality?

I don't want to have to save the pdf to a file.

Kind Regards,

Allan Ebdrup,

Software Architect,

OFiR
 
Hi Allan,

I found a good open source in the codeproject website. This is a solution
written in C#. You may go to the following link for more information.

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/PDFToText.asp

Hope this helps.

Note: Since this is a 3rd party solution, Microsoft isn't responsible for
its stability and security.

Sincerely,
Linda Liu
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Linda Liu said:
Hi Allan,

I found a good open source in the codeproject website. This is a solution
written in C#. You may go to the following link for more information.

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/PDFToText.asp
Click to expand...

I downloaded it and modified it so it could work on in-memory pdf files.
But I just discovered that what i really need is pdf2html, is there also an
open source class library that can do this conversion pdf -> html.

Kind Regards,
Allan Ebdrup
 
HI Allan,

I am sorry to tell you that I didn't find any open source class library to
do the conversion pdf to html.

As we all know, the source of an html file is made up of html tags, such as
<html>,<head>,<body> and so on. Since you have known how to extract text
from a pdf file, you could write some properly html tags along with the
text extracted from the pdf file into the html file.

Hope this helps.


Sincerely,
Linda Liu
Microsoft Online Community Support
 

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