.Net library and tool to work with PDF files

Usage

VAR.PdfTools

Add the resulting assembly as reference in your projects, and this line on code:

using VAR.PdfTools;

Then extract the contents of a data column using:

var columnData = new List<string>();
PdfDocument doc = PdfDocument.Load("document.pdf");
foreach (PdfDocumentPage page in doc.Pages)
{
    PdfTextExtractor extractor = new PdfTextExtractor(page);
    columnData.AddRange(extractor.GetColumnAsStrings("Column"));
}

Or the content of a field (text on the right of the indicated text):

var fieldData = new List<string>();
PdfDocument doc = PdfDocument.Load("document.pdf");
foreach (PdfDocumentPage page in doc.Pages)
{
    PdfTextExtractor extractor = new PdfTextExtractor(page);
    fieldData.Add(extractor.GetFieldAsString(txtFieldName.Text));
}

VAR.PdfTools.Workbench

It is a simple Windows.Forms application, to test basic funcitionallity of the library.

Building

A Visual Studio solution is provided. Simply, click build on the IDE.

The build generates a DLL and a Nuget package.

Contributing

Fork it!
Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
Submit a pull request :D

Credits

Valeriano Alfonso Rodriguez.