Programmatic Reading of PDFs in C# [closed]

Answer 1

I have successfully used two different libraries for this purpose. One is PDF Box (part of the Apache project), and also one from Snowtide Informatics.

Both are Java libraries, but you can use then with .NET in combination with IKVM.

Answer 2

Looks like iTextSharp was a popular answer Reading PDF documents in .NET
Also check out Reading/Writing PDF files in Visual C# Windows Forms

Answer 3

There is a library for .NET called PDF Clown

There is also a nice article over at codeProject article that details a few other libraries and approaches for reading PDF documents.

Answer 4

I have used PDFSharp not later than last automn and found it very easy to use in comparison to others. Home page for PDFSharp.

Answer 5

Here is another one:

http://csharp-source.net/open-source/pdf-libraries