"This section will show you how to read PDF using a.net component in C# or VB.NET. This solution will allow you to complete your PDF reading task in just three steps. You can also save the image as many common formats like jpg, JPEG, PNG, bmp and tiff. You can also read special texts like texts written from left to right, such as Herbrew, Arabic, etc.
C# is not the easiest language to use for reading PDFs. It can be difficult to read a PDF in C#. That is why we created this platform. This simple platform allows you use the PDF content just like you might in a text file, while still being able to transport it across all operating systems. This platform includes all the technology necessary to quickly read, edit and extract PDF content. For 30 days, you can try our C#PDF reader for free.
Anybody who has attempted to extract text in a PDF using C# knows that they have been asked the same question.
It's a good question. The answer lies within trade-offs made at the time the PDF format was created.
For those not familiar, a PDF file can be described as a photograph. A PDF file is a set or images that define the layout of the pages within a document. This means that it will look almost identical on any platform, regardless of whether it's Windows, Linux or Chrome. It does contain text information and font information.
Fonts are used to help applications that display PDFs draw text nearly in the same manner across different platforms. Text content in documents is mostly used to define where letters should be drawn from a particular font. Some fonts are not displayed in documents. You may have even seen them before.
This is why it's impossible to extract text from PDFs in a perfect (or at least not always) way. They aren't designed to transmit the text in an efficient way. This is almost an aftereffect of the requirement that the document be rendered.