Convert DICOM to PDF via C#

DICOM to PDF C# conversion. Programmers can use this example code to export DICOM to PDF within any .NET Framework, .NET Core, .NET 5-7

Convert DICOM to PDF in .NET

How to convert DICOM to PDF? You can easily convert programmatically a document from DICOM to PDF format with a modern document-processing .NET API. Use just a few lines of С# code to convert files with high quality. The Aspose.PDF library will allow any developer to efficiently solve the tasks of converting DICOM to PDF using .NET.

For a more detailed description of the code snippet and other possible conversion formats, see the Documentation pages. Also, you can check the other conversions of formats, which are supported by our library.

In order to convert DICOM to PDF, we’ll use Aspose.PDF for .NET API which is a feature-rich, powerful, and easy-to-use conversion API for .NET platform. Check the details of Installing the Library on the Documentation pages. To verify the benefits of the library, try using the conversion DICOM to PDF code snippet. You may also use the following command from the Package Manager Console:

Package Manager Console

PM > Install-Package Aspose.PDF

How to Convert DICOM to PDF


.NET developers can easily load & convert DICOM files to PDF in just a few lines of code.

  1. Initialize a new Document
  2. Load input DICOM image
  3. Save the output PDF file

Here is an example that demonstrates how to convert DICOM to PDF in C#. You can follow these easy steps to convert your DICOM file to PDF format. First, upload your DICOM file and then simply save it as a PDF file. You can use fully qualified filenames for both DICOM reading and PDF writing. The output PDF content and formatting will be identical to the original DICOM document.

Example: Convert DICOM to PDF via C#

This sample code shows DICOM to PDF C# Conversion

Input file:

File not added

Output format:

PDF

Output file:

// Instantiate Document Object
Document pdfDocument = new Document();

// Add a page to pages collection of document
Page page = pdfDocument.Pages.Add();

Image image = new Image
{
    FileType = ImageFileType.Dicom,
    File = System.IO.Path.Combine(_dataDir,"bmode.dcm")
};
pdfDocument.Pages[1].Paragraphs.Add(image);
// Save output as PDF format
pdfDocument.Save(System.IO.Path.Combine(_dataDir,"PDFWithDicomImage_out.pdf"));

Convert DICOM to PDF using .NET

Aspose.PDF for C# API provides a wide range of features for working with PDF files. Some of the features include:

  • Create PDF documents from scratch or from HTML, XML, or images.
  • Edit existing PDF documents by adding or removing pages, text, images, and other content.
  • Convert PDF documents to other formats such as HTML, XML, and images.
  • Render PDF documents to images or XPS format.
  • Print PDF documents directly from your application.
  • Digitally sign PDF documents.

You can find more information on Aspose.PDF for C# API in this Aspose documentation