Extract Text from pdf using C#

[Guest]

Hi,

We are Solution developer using Acrobat,as we have reuirement of extracting text from pdf using C# we have downloaded adobe sdk and installed. We have found only four exmaples in C# and those are used only for viewing pdf in windows application. Can you please guide us how to extract text from pdf using SDK in C#.

Thanks you for your help.

Regards

kiranmai

[Guest]

no i dont have any idea how to communicate plugin with my application, based on your suggestion to use plugin to get word properties i just started to create plugin, i am trying to build all the sample plugins provided by sdk but non of them are working. basically my requirement is to find different properties of words extracted from pdf like font size, font weight and style etc.. . based on my research i came to know that by using pdfwordfinder we can extract words from pdf, but i didnot find that plugin so i am trying to create that plugin with the help of document but i am not able to do. can you please suggest whether we already have pdfwordfinder plugin or i have to create

[Test Screen Name]

PDWordFinder is not a plug-in. It is a collection of methods you can use in your own plug-in.

A plug-in installs a series of routines to Acrobat which are called on certain events.

For example, a plug-in can add a menu item to Acrobat. When the user clicks your menu item, your routine is called. Then it can do the required task and report results. (Usually by popping up a message on screen if required, but it is not limited to this.)  Are you happy to have your function called from a menu by the user of Acrobat?

[Guest]

ok, can we use plugins in c#, because i am developing application in c#. i will try to create plugin but i am not able to solve the error that i am getting when building sample apis. if i am not able to solve that error then i cannot work on exsisting sample api nor i cannor create new api, please suggest why i am getting that error and how to solve it.

[Test Screen Name]

"i am developing application in c#."

I recommend moving the whole application into a plug-in, where it will be convenient for the end user of Acrobat to run your PDF functionality in one place.

"please suggest why i am getting that error and how to solve it."

I have done so. Twice. Is my advice confusing, or does it seem not to apply to your problem?