Reading PDF per Line

Question

How can I read a PDF file line by line using iText5 for .NET? I have search through the internet but I only found reading PDF file per page content.

Please see below code.

public string ReadPdfFile(object Filename)
{

    string strText = string.Empty;
    try
    {
        PdfReader reader = new PdfReader((string)Filename);

        for (int page = 1; page <= reader.NumberOfPages; page++)
        {
            ITextExtractionStrategy its = new iTextSharp.text.pdf.parser.SimpleTextExtractionStrategy();

            String s = PdfTextExtractor.GetTextFromPage(reader, page, its);

            s = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ASCIIEncoding.Convert(Encoding.Default, Encoding.UTF8, Encoding.Default.GetBytes(s)));
            strText = strText + s;

        }
        reader.Close();
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
    }
    return strText;
}

Answer 1

Try this, use theLocationTextExtractionStrategy instead of the SimpleTextExtractionStrategy it will add new line characters to the text returned. Then you can use strText.Split('\n') to split your text into a string[] and consume it on a per line basis.