how to read pdf files in asp.net mvc usign itext sharp or some other tool ?

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HI we are working on a project with asp.net mvc4. our need is to upload a pdf file which may have simple text or may be text and images or even a links.

user will upload this pdf file to the server. now we need to show the content of the pdf in the browser using some tools. we cant use object tag of html and open the pdf file. we need to read all the content from the pdf file and then will show on web page only.

Posted 5-Feb-14 22:08pm

ravikhoda

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Ahmed Bensaid · Answer 1 · 2014-02-05T22:17:00

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Lot of resources on CodeProject ;)
itextsharp read pdf file[^]
Create/Read Advance PDF Report using iTextSharp in C# .NET: Part I[^]
Extract text by line from PDF using iTextSharp c#[^]
PDF Document Reading in C#.net using itext sharp.[^]

Posted 5-Feb-14 22:17pm

Ahmed Bensaid

Updated 5-Feb-14 22:18pm

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ravikhoda 6-Feb-14 4:27am

thanks for you help. i will check links and will update you.

ravikhoda 6-Feb-14 4:46am

HI , tried some of them but my pdf not only containes text it have images , link etc also. dont know how to read it from PDf and convert to HTML.

Ahmed Bensaid 6-Feb-14 5:30am

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/277901/in-asp-net-what-is-the-best-way-to-convert-a-pdf-file-to-html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2295555/how-to-convert-pdf-into-html-using-c-sharp