How Can We Read Data From PDF File And Write It In Word File Using Asp.net C# Code...?
You can use the IFilter capabilities built into Windows, here's an article with some example code:
Using-IFilter-in-C
The issue with PDF files is that even if you're able to extract the plaintext of the PDF in readable form (which is not a guarantee by any stretch), the text will be completely unformatted. Even simple things like line breaks will be lost in many cases.
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I have to big files of MS Word & PDF which contains images, text fields, tables.
I need to insert text into these files dynamically at specific locations. I've tried Bookmarks method in Word but I can't use that method now. I've extracted data into byte array and tried to write in pdf but file gets corrupted. Here is the code:
byte[] bytes = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes("CDC.doc");
FileStream fs = new FileStream("CDC.pdf", FileMode.OpenOrCreate);
fs.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
fs.Close();
Is there any way that I can convert these pdf/ word files to get PDF code for these files and then I can append data to specific locations in that code. Please advise. Thanks!
If I understand you right, you would like to develop a code that would replace all placeholders in a Word document acting as a template with your application data. For placeholders you can use Bookmarks, but a better choice would be Content Controls. You can use Open XML SDK to parse such a template Word document and replace Content Controls with data. This approach uses a free MS library but is tedious.
A much easier approach would be using a ready-made library which can work with templates, which contain placeholders that will get replaced with your real app data at runtime. In your C# application you can prepare the data (as C# data objects or XML) and merge this data with the template. Output can be in docx, pdf or xps format. You can check out some of the examples here.
I have PDF document data with table structure format and I would like to convert that PDF file into a text file with the same structure with margin and spaces between text in pdf
You need to write your own PDF tool then. Which is not exactly an easy task. Honestly, 3rd party tools make your job much easier, why don't you want to use one?
If you change your mind, I can suggest iTextSharp. I've used it in the past with great success. Here are some example to get you going:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/12445/Converting-PDF-to-Text-in-C
ps. there are 3 tools used in there.
I am trying to find a way to open or convert a webarchive file to any other format in C#. The goal is an automated import system with as few restrictions on file type as possible. I cannot seem to find any way of converting the file other than using safari to open it.
Unfortunately what you are looking for cannot really be done. A webarchive is a proprietary file type made by Apple to display offline webpages in a Safari. This is a combination of xml, html, and binary data, but there are examples in Objective-C to convert the webarchive to a zip archive that contains the html and embedded images/media that was originally displayed on the website that was saved into the webarchive file.
Here is an Objective-C example from GitHub - WebArchiveExtractor
As for converting to PDF...not sure that can be done, you would be better off printing the webpage to PDF in the first place and then uploading that to your document management system.
Apparently though the webarchive filetype contains XML with binary encoded images/media similar to an MHTML file, so you may be able to figure out the format by viewing them in text editors and then writing a conversion utility, but there is very limited information on the web regarding the internal schema of the webarchive file format, so this may be a daunting task. However, since WebKit is open source you can see their code for created an archive and try to reverse it to build your converter. Here's the source code (in C++) for the archiving features in Safari, which actually looks like they are using mhtml, but I haven't explored deep enough to tell if it's exactly the same format: http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/loader/archive
Good Luck!
I need to convert PDF files into .doc files using C#. The computer has no file system though it doesn't have Office installed. Any good ideas how I can approach this? I did some research and most of people use the interop services.
You need to understand that PDF is not really implemented as a single document format.
If your PDF docs are created by rendering text to a PDF file, then direct PDF conversion is not only possible, but can be very good (reliable).
If the source of your PDF is either a scanner or fax (essentially a scanner...) then what you have is a document with an "picture" of text. This scenario is more difficult to deal with. If you open up the markup for this there is no 'text' to be converted. In this situation you have to deal with some manner of OCR (optical character recognition) which is less reliable due to a variety of issues.
If you have the option of intercepting the data before it is rendered to PDF (say like in SSRS or Crystal) then it would be better for you to bypass the PDF stage and move your data to a Word document.
If you are constrained to receiving faxes and then needing to interpret their content, prepare for OCR hell. It has been a while since I was there, so I hope that it has gotten better.
Even with out office installed on your machine, you have access (with Visual Studios) to the Office developer toolkit which will allow you build documents to be distributed in the Word formats.(.doc/.docx).
An option/idea may be to convert the PDF to Html, which can be opened in Word?
use aspose pdf kit to conver pdf to text and then text to doc using filestream or aspose doc
I want to read tables which are in a PDF document and I want to store these values in a Database.
What I have found so far through searching the web:
Read text from PDF using abcpdf .net, which is freeware available. But it's not right solution because I want to read the tables.
Convert PDF document into Excel/Word. Tables will come in the target document as it is. Word conversion is possible by using EasyPDF Converter which is third party tool which is much cheaper than the other solution available in other tool which converts PDF into Excel.
But I am looking for any other solution/API classes which can convert PDF into Excel.
There are 2 possible solutions
a) Cometdocs makes a free online conversion from PDF to XLS surprisingly good and send for your email the result file.
b) Cognview is a comertial shareware that converts PDF to XLS. There is OCR and text version. I didn't use personally, but they have good recomendations.
If you are looking to upload your data into a database, converting your PDFs to CSV is probably the safest option. The PDFTables API will allow you to do this with C#, converting as many PDFs at once as necessary. https://pdftables.com/pdf-to-excel-api#csharp
You can try to use Quablo, a PDF table extractor available at this web page (link updated/corrected).