Convert PDF to BYTEARRAY via C#

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

Convert PDF to BYTEARRAY in .NET

How to convert PDF to BYTEARRAY? You can easily convert programmatically a document from PDF to BYTEARRAY 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 PDF to BYTEARRAY 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 PDF to BYTEARRAY, 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 PDF to BYTEARRAY 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 PDF to BYTEARRAY


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

  1. Include the namespace in your class file
  2. Load input PDF File
  3. Initialize a Byte Array
  4. Initialize FileStream object
  5. Load the contents into the byte array
  6. Process byte array as of your requirement

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

Example: Convert PDF to BYTEARRAY via C#

This sample code shows PDF to BYTEARRAY C# Conversion

Input file:

File not added

Output format:

BYTEARRAY

Output file:

        public static void ConvertPDFtoByteArray()
        {
            // load PDF with an instance of Document                        
            var document = new Document("template.pdf");
            // Add an additional page
            document.Pages.Add();
            // create Memory Stream
            var memoryStream = new System.IO.MemoryStream();
            document.Save(memoryStream);
            // create ByteArray with PDF content
            var byteArray = memoryStream.ToArray();
            System.Console.WriteLine(byteArray.Length);
        }

Convert PDF to BYTEARRAY using .NET library

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