IronPDF's document.load function allows the parsing and content extraction from PDFs. It is possible to extract plain text and images from PDFs with ease.
For extracting text, IronPDF uses the PDF document.extract text from page method, which accurately extracts UTF-8 or other encoding text from a PDF document. This functionality is often used for indexing PDFs in search engines.
IronPDF also exposes the PDF document.extract images from the page method, which extracts any embedded images from a PDF file. In addition, the software offers rendering or rasterizing functionality that allows any existing PDF to be turned into image files rendered page by page, verbatim identical to the original PDF document.
While IronPDF does not offer OCR capabilities, users can use IronOCR, its sister product, for extracting text from images and PDF files. IronOCR is an advanced PDF OCR technology that allows PDF files to be turned into plain text, whether or not the content is embedded as PDF text objects or within images. This feature is perfect for extracting text from PDF scans.
IronPDF supports the reading of PDF files to and from streams using its from stream functionality and the stream property of the PDF document. This allows users to save to and from any type of stream supported by .Net, including file streams and memory streams.
Finally, IronPDF fully supports the extraction of PDF file contents from byte arrays. Overall, IronPDF is a comprehensive C# PDF reader that offers a variety of functionalities for parsing and reading PDF files.
Version 2022.3.5084:
Fixes bug where PNG images didn't load correctly when using .NET6.
Fixes bug where license stamps could not be clicked.
Improves compatibility with some Linux distributions.
Improves overall stability.
Improves multithreading support.
Updates to latest Pdfium version.
Version 2021.11.4183:
Pixel Perfect Chrome HTML to PDF rendering
Full Multithreading and Async support
Razor and MVC helpers added
ChromePdfRenderer, WebKitPdfRenderer and AdaptivePdfRenderer classes added
Chrome renderer replaces WebKit as our default HtmlToPdf engine
HTML, CSS and JS are rendered more accurately
Version 2021.3.1.0:
"* Improved PDF to Image performance
* Smaller deployment footprint
* PdfDocument.FromFile now supports even more PDF types
* Fixed AccessViolationException on rasterising high DPI PDF files
* Improved PDF to MultiPage TIFF
* Improved MultiPage TIFF to PDF
* Improved Documentation
Version 2021.3.1:
* Improved PDF to Image performance
* Smaller deployment footprint
* PdfDocument.FromFile now supports even more PDF types
* Fixed AccessViolationException on rasterising high DPI PDF files
* Improved PDF to MultiPage TIFF
* Improved MultiPage TIFF to PDF
* Improved Documentation
Version 2020.11.0: This is a how to read content in its original content using IronPDF. Using this C# library, we can read PDF files, extract content, and even extract high quality and original images.