.NET APIs to extract text from documents

Extracts raw and formatted text

Extracts metadata

Extract structured text

Extract highlighted text

Extract text from databases

Search text in documents

Fetches text from containers containing other files such as zip archives

Gets formatted text from TXT, Markdown and HTML files

Support for encoding detection

Support for media type detectors

Text and Metadata Extractors

GroupDocs.Parser for .NET provides various relevant text extractor classes. Moreover API also has convenient tools classes like encoding and media type detectors for different files e.g

• EmailTextExtractor and EmailFormattedTextExtractor classes to extract text from email messages
• ExtractorFactory class for creating Text, Formatted Extractor and Container.
• EncodingDetector class for decoding different encoding.
• MediaTypeDetector abstract class for each custom media type detector class to detect media type of the corresponding file.

In the same way API has various classes for metadata extraction from various documents

Container Text Extractor

Container has the ability to work with files containing other documents just like zip archives. API can be consumed for extracting messages from these containers such as ost-container.

Extracting Text

Using API extracting text from a document is simple and achieved with just few lines of code

string doc = "sample.docx";
// Extract text from the file
Console.WriteLine(Extractor.Default.ExtractText(doc));
//Extract text from the stream
using(Stream stream = File.OpenRead(doc))
{
   Console.WriteLine(Extractor.Default.ExtractText(stream));
}