Convert PDF to TXT via C#

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

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Convert PDF to TXT in .NET

How to convert PDF to TXT? You can easily convert programmatically a document from PDF to TXT 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 TXT 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 TXT, 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 TXT code snippet. You may also use the following command from the Package Manager Console:

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PM > Install-Package Aspose.PDF

How to Convert PDF to TXT

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

Initialize a new Document
Create & set the instance of TextDevice class with Size & Resolution
Call TextDevice.Process method with page index & output file path as parameters
Save the output TXT file

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

Example: Convert PDF to TXT via C#

This sample code shows PDF to TXT C# Conversion

Input file:

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Output format:

TXT

Output file:

        public static void ConvertPDFtoTXT()
        {
            // load PDF with an instance of Document                        
            var document = new Document("template.pdf");

            // create an object of TextDevice
            var renderer = new Aspose.Pdf.Devices.TextDevice();

            renderer.Process(document.Pages[1], "output.txt");            
        }

Convert PDF to TXT 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