Gehtsoft.Barcodes vs ITextSharp

Gehtsoft.Barcodes

The cross-platform C# library to easily generate barcodes, including QR codes. The library allows application developers to add a variety of standard barcodes and QR codes using convenient API. (by gehtsoft-usa)

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ITextSharp

[DEPRECATED] .NET port of the iText library, only security fixes will be added — please use iText for .NET (by itext)

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Gehtsoft.Barcodes		ITextSharp
	Project
-	Mentions	4
5	Stars	1,333
-	Growth	0.5%
0.0	Activity	1.7
about 3 years ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
C#	Language	C#
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Gehtsoft.Barcodes

Posts with mentions or reviews of Gehtsoft.Barcodes. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

ITextSharp

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Automatisches Auslesen von PDFs
2 projects | /r/de_EDV | 16 May 2023
Extract Table of Contents (TOC) from a PDF using PowerShell
2 projects | /r/PowerShell | 22 Dec 2022

It uses iTextSharp
Unsure where to start - Needing to develop a program/app to automate a tedious part of my job
1 project | /r/AskProgramming | 15 Feb 2022

You can use libraries like https://www.nuget.org/packages/iTextSharp/ to read the text out of a PDF. Then just run a regular expression over it to extract your into XML or something.
Need some help on this:
1 project | /r/PowershellSolutions | 11 Mar 2021

NuGet Gallery | iTextSharp 5.5.13.2

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Gehtsoft.Barcodes and ITextSharp you can also consider the following projects:

iTextSharp (LGPL / MPL) 4.1.6 for .NET Core - Unofficial .NET Core port of iTextSharp 4.1.6. Last version to be released under the Mozilla Public License and the LGPL.

WkhtmlToPdf - C# wrapper around excellent wkhtmltopdf console utility.

PdfPig - Read and extract text and other content from PDFs in C# (port of PDFBox)

library - QuestPDF is an open-source, modern and battle-tested library that can help you with generating PDF documents by offering friendly, discoverable and predictable C# fluent API.

Pdfium.Net SDK

PdfiumViewer