This quick tutorial explains the detailed instructions to extract text from PDF in C#. It also provides the sample application to show the implementation to extract text from PDF using C#. This guide uses one of the popular packages for extracting document data from various document formats. Below are the core steps and a sample code to get a text from a PDF.

Steps to Extract Text from PDF in C#

1. Setup GroupDocs.Parser for .NET package from the NuGet package manager in the .NET application to extract text from PDF
2. Add a reference to the essential namespaces for extracting the text from PDF document
3. Instantiate the Parser class for loading the input PDF document
4. Call the GetText method and get a text reader object
5. Finally, read the text from the reader and display it

We have listed all the key steps to develop the C# extract text from PDF application. These instructions for extracting text from PDF can be used on any platform like MS Windows, Linux, and macOS that support a .NET environment and even without installing any third-party software. You have to write a few lines of code that consists of API calls of the document extraction library.

Code to Extract Text from PDF in C#

In the above code snippet, we have developed the C# read PDF text application to show you the working of getting a text from the documents. We have used a PDF file for extracting text in this example, however, you can extract text from various other documents such as DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPTX, MSG, XML, ZIP, and many more.

We have discussed the process in detail to implement the C# get text from PDF functionality and created a sample code for it. Recently, we published an article for extracting metadata from PDF in C#, have a look at how to Extract Metadata from PDF using C# guide for more information.