pdftools
docnet
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pdftools
docnet
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Completely free libraries to read data from a pdf in C#?
I'm using https://github.com/GowenGit/docnet in production. I use it for text extraction and to generate thumbnails.
What are some alternatives?
pdfCropMargins - pdfCropMargins -- a program to crop the margins of PDF files
Pdfium.Net SDK
dman - Use dmenu to View Man Pages as a PDFs
ITextSharp - [DEPRECATED] .NET port of the iText library, only security fixes will be added — please use iText for .NET
stapler - A small utility making use of the pypdf library to provide a (somewhat) lighter alternative to pdftk
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.
PdfPig - Read and extract text and other content from PDFs in C# (port of PDFBox)
browserless - A Ruby wrapper for the Browserless PDF API with support for modern CSS such as TailwindCSS
PdfiumViewer
unipdf - Golang PDF library for creating and processing PDF files (pure go)
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.