ITextSharp vs docnet

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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docnet

DocNET is as fast PDF editing and reading library for modern .NET applications (by GowenGit)

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ITextSharp		docnet
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4	Mentions	1
1,333	Stars	425
0.5%	Growth	4.5%
1.7	Activity	4.9
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	7 months ago
C#	Language	C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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ITextSharp

Posts with mentions or reviews of ITextSharp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-16.

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

docnet

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

Completely free libraries to read data from a pdf in C#?
1 project | /r/dotnet | 12 Jul 2023

I'm using https://github.com/GowenGit/docnet in production. I use it for text extraction and to generate thumbnails.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ITextSharp and docnet 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.

Pdfium.Net SDK

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.

PdfiumViewer

WkhtmlToPdf - C# wrapper around excellent wkhtmltopdf console utility.