UglyToad/PdfPig

PdfPig

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Read and extract text and other content from PDFs in C# (port of PDFBox)

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C# · Apache-2.0 · Last push 2026-11-03

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Get the project

git clone https://github.com/UglyToad/PdfPig.git

Cloning downloads the source. For dependencies and installation, follow the project README.

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