PdfDocumentProcessor.GetText() Method

Retrieves the document content.

Assembly : DevExpress.Docs.v25.2.dll

NuGet Package : DevExpress.Document.Processor

Declaration

C#
VB.NET

csharp

public string GetText()

Public Function GetText As String

Returns

Type	Description
String

The text obtained from the document.

Remarks

The GetText method uses the page coordinate system. Refer to the following help topic for more details: Coordinate Systems.

Set the PdfTextExtractionOptions.ClipToCropBox property to false and pass the PdfTextExtractionOptions object as the method parameter to extract document content without clipping to the crop box.

The code sample below retrieves all document content:

C#
VB.NET

csharp

using (DevExpress.Pdf.PdfDocumentProcessor processor =
 new DevExpress.Pdf.PdfDocumentProcessor())
{
    processor.LoadDocument("TextExtraction.pdf");

    string pageText = processor.GetText();
    Console.WriteLine(pageText);
}

Using processor As New DevExpress.Pdf.PdfDocumentProcessor()
    processor.LoadDocument("TextExtraction.pdf")

    Dim pageText As String = processor.GetText()
    Console.WriteLine(pageText)
End Using