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Alaa M. Tekleh
Alaa M. Tekleh

Reputation: 7926

Text Extraction library from different file types, PDF ,DOC, DOCX, TXT c#

I'm Building Information Retrieval System that search text in multi files formats, I have Tried EPocalipse IFilter Lirary but it through an exception when trying to read docx files, and I tried Toxy Library it though an exception for doc arabic files, finally I tried TikaOnDotNet Libray but it need java to work and I need to put the system online on hosting that don't have java installed on server

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1986

Answers (2)

Debasis
Debasis

Reputation: 3750

A library which is able to extract all textual data from any type of files is the Apache Tika library. It can even extract the metadata (if any) from non-text files such as image and video files. Example use cases are shown here.

Upvotes: 2

user6522773
user6522773

Reputation:

What about using such libraries :

For DOC/DOCX: http://www.dotnetperls.com/word

For PDF: https://github.com/itext/itextsharp

For TXT: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143368(v=vs.110).aspx

Upvotes: 2

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