An excellent library for easy and fast text extraction in the .NET environment!
BSEditor: Gears.IFilterHelper is a .NET component that allows you to use IFilters to Extract text from various formats like Adobe PDF, Microsoft Office, Zip, CHM and other formats.

With Gears.IFilterHelper you can add text extraction capabilities to your .NET applications in a couple of lines of code.

The next C#/VB.NET sample demonstrate how to use Gears.IFilterHelper API to extract text from HelloWorld.doc document and print it to console.

Key Features

* Extracts text from files
* Supports .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.5
* C#, VB.NET and other CLS-compliant languages
* Works with any well-written IFilters
* Supports Adobe PDF IFilter 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0 for text extraction from PDF files from .NET
* Automatically detects installed IFilters you can free download Gears.IFilterHelper 1.1.5 now.