Thanks Kevin for the reply and providing some insight into this.
Can we usePdfEncoding to convert the format and use them for the extraction.
Thanks,
Uma
Vinoo wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am trying to parse the contents of the PDF with iTextSharp using :
> PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("Test.pdf");
> reader.GetPageContent(pageNumber);
> byte[] pageContentByteArray;
> I am using this byte array to search for a partcular text based on a
> Delimiter pattern by converting this to string by using -
> string test = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(pageContentByteArray);
> I am able to match the required text pattern inside the string generated
> using the above statement. The above logic works absolutely fine if we use
> a normal PDF input file.
> My requirement is to read a PDF file which is created by CRYSTAL REPORTS
> (Version-9).
> I have a byte array of the page with me. But I tried to convert to string
> using ASCII, UNICODE , UTF8, UnicodeBig..
> string test =
> Encoding.ASCII.GetString(invoicePageContentByteArray);
> string test =
> Encoding.Unicode.GetString(invoicePageContentByteArray);
> string test =
> Encoding.UTF8.GetString(invoicePageContentByteArray);
> ..... also using UnicodeBig
>
> The output is not in the readable format. I could not find any text in the
> page appearing in the output string. I guess the PDF generated out of
> crystal reports is using some other encoding format.
> (Note : We verified the template used by crystal reports to generate the
> PDF. The search delimiter pattern is defined as the Text object)
> There should be some way of doing the above. Not sure what is that I am
> missing here. Can anyone please suggest ideas to resolve the above
> problem.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Uma
>
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