Isolate table from pdf and get table data as a datatable

Question

pdf has text as well as one table (with rows and columns) i want to isolate and get table in pdf as a datatable. how can do that with asp.net c# ?

Deepak Rawat · Answer

Install iTextSharp NuGet package: In your ASP.NET project, open the NuGet Package Manager and search for "iTextSharp." Install the iTextSharp (iText 7 Community) package. Create a method to extract the table as a DataTable: using iText.Kernel.Pdf; using iText.Layout; using iText.Layout.Element; using iText.Layout.Properties; using iText.Kernel.Geom; using iText.Kernel.Font; using iText.IO.Font.Constants; using iText.Kernel.Colors; public DataTable ExtractTableFromPDF(string pdfFilePath, int tableIndex) { DataTable dataTable = new DataTable(); using (PdfDocument pdfDocument = new PdfDocument(new PdfReader(pdfFilePath))) { PdfPage page = pdfDocument.GetPage(1); // Assuming the table is on the first page ITextExtractionStrategy strategy = new SimpleTextExtractionStrategy(); string pageContent = PdfTextExtractor.GetTextFromPage(page, strategy); string[] lines = pageContent.Split('
'); // Assuming the table is represented as lines in the PDF string tableLine = lines[tableIndex]; // Split the table line into individual cells based on separators (e.g., tabs, spaces, etc.) string[] cells = tableLine.Split(new char[] { '	', ' ' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries); // Assuming the first row contains column headers, populate the DataTable's columns foreach (string cell in cells) { dataTable.Columns.Add(cell.Trim()); } // Start from the second row to populate the DataTable's rows for (int i = tableIndex + 1; i

Amit Mohanty · Answer

Check this, it may help you. using iTextSharp.text; using iTextSharp.text.pdf; using System.Data; using System.IO; public DataTable ExtractTableFromPDF(string pdfFilePath) { DataTable dataTable = new DataTable(); using (PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(pdfFilePath)) { for (int page = 1; page string pdfFilePath = "path/to/your/pdf/file.pdf"; DataTable extractedTable = ExtractTableFromPDF(pdfFilePath);