This short tutorial focuses on the procedure of how to extract metadata from Excel file in C#. We will walk you through every step for extracting the metadata from documents using one of the best document extraction APIs and teach you how to use these instructions for creating the C# Excel metadata extractor application. Here are the key points as well as a code snippet for getting excel metadata using C#.

Steps to Extract Metadata from Excel File in C#

1. Install GroupDocs.Parser for .NET package from the NuGet website in the .NET project to extract metadata from the Excel file
2. Add a reference of the necessary namespaces for extracting the metadata from the Excel document
3. Initialize the Parser class for loading the input Excel document
4. Call the GetMetadata method of the Parser class for obtaining collection of document metadata objects
5. Iterate over the metadata collection, display the name and value of the metadata item

To get Excel file metadata using C# is a really easy process by following the above steps in a sequence. These steps explain to you to configure the required package, include essential namespaces, and consume a few API calls for extracting metadata from Excel documents. These instructions do not rely on any third-party tool and you can use them on any widely used operating systems like Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Code to Extract Metadata from Excel File in C#

The above code snippet shows how to get XLSX metadata in C# by consuming the stepwise instructions explained in the earlier section. As you can see that we have written a few lines of code and consumed a couple of API calls for extracting the metadata. You can also extract metadata from other document formats such as DOC, DOCX, DOT, PPTX, PDF, EML, MSG, POT, and many more.

We have discussed the process to extract metadata from Excel documents using C# and developed a sample code for it in this post. Recently, we published an article for extracting Images from Word Document using C#, have a look at how to Extract Images from Word Document in C# guide for more information.