Reading PDF content with itextsharp dll in VB.NET or C#

Question

How can I read PDF content with the itextsharp with the Pdfreader class. My PDF may include Plain text or Images of the text.

Answer 1

using iTextSharp.text.pdf; using iTextSharp.text.pdf.parser; using System.IO;  public string ReadPdfFile(string fileName) {     StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder();      if (File.Exists(fileName))     {         PdfReader pdfReader = new PdfReader(fileName);          for (int page = 1; page <= pdfReader.NumberOfPages; page++)         {             ITextExtractionStrategy strategy = new SimpleTextExtractionStrategy();             string currentText = PdfTextExtractor.GetTextFromPage(pdfReader, page, strategy);              currentText = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ASCIIEncoding.Convert(Encoding.Default, Encoding.UTF8, Encoding.Default.GetBytes(currentText)));             text.Append(currentText);         }         pdfReader.Close();     }     return text.ToString(); }