Read & Parse a PDF file using VB.NET

Question

_{Monday, September 8, 2008 7:10 AM}

Hi,
 
I need to read and parse a PDF file that has 50,000 pages. The "Save As" option within the Acrobat Reader is not of much use. The PDF file contains records in columns and I need to able to move those records into a database format.

Therefor, what I am looking for is set of API's that can open a PDF file and read the PDF file data.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,

Vibhu Bansal
http://www.ITSYSSolutions.com

All replies (2)

_{Monday, September 8, 2008 7:45 AM ✅Answered}

 http://www.accusoft.com/products/imagegear/igpro/pdf.asp?WT.srch=1

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/

hope this helps

Shimmy

_{Friday, September 12, 2008 5:22 AM}

Vibhu Bansal said:

Therefor, what I am looking for is set of API's that can open a PDF file and read the PDF file data.

Hi Vibhu,

Here is one document for you to check:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/string/pdf2text.aspx
Parsing PDF files in .NET using PDFBox and IKVM.NET (managed code).

PDFBox library allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents. PDFBox also includes several command line utilities.

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Best regards,
Martin Xie