Extracting data from a pdf file with c#

kgomotso Mkansi

6y6kVisual Basic .NET

I am trying to extract data from certain pages from a pdf file that contains tables e.g from page 50 of 80 pages file.

And should also take in 3 inputs(start-page, end-page and source file) from a user.

Please assist.

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Marvin Reid4y ago
You can use the PDFFile ExtractPages method to extract certain pages. This does provide the ability to specify a start page, end page, and source file. Here is code that you can build on:
static void SplitUsingPDFFile(string inputFile, string _directory)
{
   PDFFile pdfFile = new PDFFile(inputFile);
   int totalPages = pdfFile.GetPageCount();
   Console.Write($"SplitUsingPDFFile..\nTotal pages: {totalPages}, Splitting pages: ");
   for (int page = 1; page <= totalPages; page++)
   {
      Console.Write($"{page}.. ");
      string outputFileName = $"{Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(inputFile)}_pdfFile_page{page}.pdf";
      string outputFile = Path.Combine(_directory, outputFileName);
      pdfFile.ExtractPages(page, page, outputFile);
   }
   Console.WriteLine();
}
https://www.leadtools.com/help/sdk/v22/tutorials/dotnet-console-split-a-pdf-file-into-multiple-files.html
https://www.leadtools.com/help/sdk/v22/dh/pdf/pdffile-extractpages(int,int,string).html
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Jignesh Kumar6y ago
Please use this link, https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/blogs/reading-contents-from-pdf-word-text-files-in-c-sharp1 https://bytescout.com/products/developer/pdfextractorsdk/extract-data-from-pdf-coordinates
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Leon D6y ago
Check this link:
https://www.e-iceblue.com/Tutorials/Spire.PDF/Spire.PDF-Program-Guide/Read-PDF-Read-PDF-Images-and-Text-in-C-VB.NET.html
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Jignesh Kumar6y ago
Hi, Please try this link, https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/blogs/datatable-to-pdf-export http://csharpdocs.com/export-data-to-pdf-using-c/
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Amit Gupta6y ago
Have you tried this https://stackoverflow.com/a/18753745
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kgomotso Mkansi6y ago
itextsharp doesn't read my tables
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Amit Gupta6y ago
What's the issue? You can use any 3rd party tool like itextsharp to read pdf files.
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