PdfToTextConverter Class |
The PDF to Text converter class
Inheritance HierarchySystemObject
ExpertPdfPdfToTextConverter
ExpertPdfPdfToTextConverter
Namespace: ExpertPdf
Assembly: eppdftotext (in eppdftotext.dll) Version: 7.0
SyntaxThe PdfToTextConverter type exposes the following members.
Constructors| Name | Description | |
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 | PdfToTextConverter |
PDF to Text converter constructor
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Properties| Name | Description | |
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 | AddHtmlMetaTags |
When this property is true the extracted text is included in a HTML document with the meta info taken
from the PDF document description. The default value is false.
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| ClipText |
Do not return hidden text from the PDF document.
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| DocumentInformation |
PDF document information. This property is populated after the requested operation (ConvertToText) is finished.
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| EndPageNumber |
The page number where the text extraction will end. The default value is 0 which means that all the PDF document text
will be extracted starting from the StartPageNumber page.
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| HtmlCharset |
The charset meta tag added to the generated HTML document. This property has effect only when the AddHtmlMetaTags
property is true. The default value is UTF-8.
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| Layout |
Gets or sets the layout of the output text. The default value is OriginalLayout.
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| LicenseKey |
The license key string received after the product purchase or
a demo license key for the demo version of the converter. This property must be set
before calling the text extraction method. When this property is null, the converter
will run in demo mode.
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| MarkPageBreaks |
When this property is true a special character defined by the PAGE_BREAK_MARK property is inserted after the text extracted from each page.
The default value is false.
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 | PAGE_BREAK_MARK |
Gets the page break mark character used when the MarkPageBreaks property is true.
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| PdfToolsFullPath |
Gets or sets the full path (including the file name) of the pdf tools engine helper file.
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| PdfToolsTimeout |
Timeout in seconds for the current operation. Default value is 600 seconds.
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| StartPageNumber |
The page number from where the text extraction will start. The default value is 1 which means the text extraction
will start from the first page.
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| UserPassword |
The ASCII password to be used to open the PDF document for reading. The default value is null which means that
no password will be used to open the PDF document.
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| xDf |
Internal use only.
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Methods| Name | Description | |
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| ConvertToText(Stream) |
Converts a PDF document stream to a string.
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| ConvertToText(String) |
Converts a PDF file to a string.
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| ExtractTextAtCoords(Stream, Int32, Double, Double, Double, Double) |
Extracts the text from the specified page and coordinates.
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| ExtractTextAtCoords(String, Int32, Double, Double, Double, Double) |
Extracts the text from the specified page and coordinates.
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| ExtractTextPositions(Stream, String, Boolean, Boolean) |
Searches for a text into a PDF document specified by a Stream.
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| ExtractTextPositions(String, String, Boolean, Boolean) |
Searches for a text into a PDF file.
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| GetPageCount(Stream) |
Gets the number of pages in the specified PDF stream.
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| GetPageCount(String) |
Gets the number of pages in the specified PDF file.
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