split huge 40000 page pdf into single pages, itextsharp, outofmemoryexception

Question

I am getting huge PDF files with lots of data. The current PDF is 350 MB and has about 40000 pages. It would of course have been nice to get smaller PDFs, but this is what I hav

Answer 1

From what I have read, it looks like when instantiating the PdfReader that you should use the constructor that takes in a RandomAccessFileOrArray object. Disclaimer: I have not tried this out myself.

iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfReader reader = new iTextSharp.text.pdf.PdfReader(new iTextSharp.text.pdf.RandomAccessFileOrArray(@"C:\PDFFile.pdf"), null);