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I want to read a PDF file as a string.
I'm using File.ReadAllText(path), but the result ends on the first stream of binary data.
I think it recognizes some part of the stream as the end of file and stops.

Any idea how to solve this?

Amirali Amirifar
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  • You can extract text from a PDF using tools as [IText7](https://www.nuget.org/packages/iText7/) – Jimi May 24 '22 at 11:20
  • Does this answer your question? [Base64 Encode a PDF in C#?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/475421/base64-encode-a-pdf-in-c) – Troy Turley May 24 '22 at 13:34

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You cannot read a PDF file as a string, because a PDF file contains other data than just characters. Read the file into a byte array or parse it switching between reading text and binary data whenever you encounter a stream object in the PDF file.

Some languages like PHP treat strings and byte arrays as interchangeable. That is not the case in C#.

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