Convert PDF to TXT in C#

High-speed C# library for converting PDF to TXT

Use our document conversion API to develop high-level, platform independent software for .NET and .NET Core platforms. This is a professional software solution to import and export PDF, TXT, and many other document formats using C#, F#, VB.NET.

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Convert PDF to TXT using C#

Need to convert a document from PDF to TXT format programmatically? With Aspose.Words for .NET any developer can convert documents from PDF to TXT format with just a few lines of C# code.

Modern document-processing C# API creates a TXT document from PDF with professional quality. Test the highest quality PDF to TXT conversion right in your browser. Powerful C# library allows converting PDF files to almost all TXT document formats.

Save PDF as a TXT document in C#

The following example demonstrates how to convert PDF to TXT document format in C#.

Follow the easy steps to turn a PDF file into TXT document format. Read your PDF file from the local drive, then simply save it in TXT document format, specifying the required file format by required TXT extension. For both PDF reading and TXT document writing you can use fully qualified filenames. The output TXT content and formatting will be identical to the original PDF document.

Code example in C# to convert PDF to TXT format
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using Aspose.Words;

var doc = new Document("Input.pdf");
doc.Save("Output.txt");
using Aspose.Words; var doc = new Document("Input.pdf"); doc.Save("Output.txt"); using Aspose.Words; var doc = new Document("Input.pdf"); for (int page = 0; page < doc.PageCount; page++) { var extractedPage = doc.ExtractPages(page, 1); extractedPage.Save($"Output_{page + 1}.txt"); } using Aspose.Words; var doc = new Document(); var builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc); builder.InsertImage("Input.pdf"); doc.Save("Output.txt"); using Aspose.Words; var doc = new Document(); var builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc); var shape = builder.InsertImage("Input.pdf"); shape.GetShapeRenderer().Save("Output.txt", new ImageSaveOptions(SaveFormat.txt));
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How to convert PDF to TXT C#

  1. Install Aspose.Words for .NET.
  2. Add a library reference (import the library) to your C# project.
  3. Open the source PDF file in C#.
  4. Call the Save() method, passing an output filename with TXT extension.
  5. Get the result of PDF conversion as TXT.

C# library to convert PDF to TXT

There are three alternative options to install "Aspose.Words for .NET" onto your system. Please choose one that resembles your needs and follow the step-by-step instructions:

System Requirements

Our product is fully cross-platform and supports all major .NET implementations following '.NET Standard 2.0' specification:

  • Microsoft .NET Framework, starting from the earliest 2.0 version, and ending with the latest '.NET Framework 4.8'
  • .NET Core, starting from the earliest 2.0, and ending with the latest '.NET 6'
  • Mono >= 2.6.7

As far as .NET code doesn't depend on the underlying hardware or operating system, but only on a Virtual Machine, you are free to develop any kind of software for Windows, macOS, Android, iOS and Linux. Just make sure you have installed the corresponding version of .NET Framework, .NET Core, Windows Azure, Mono or Xamarin.

We recommend using Microsoft Visual Studio, Xamarin, and MonoDevelop integrated development environments to create C#, F#, VB.NET applications.

Fore more details please refer to Product Documentation.

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