I have been working on the PDFPig library which started as a port of the PDFBox library from Java. This library allows the user to read words/letters from a PDF document.

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In the full .NET framework I was using IKVM to run PDFBox; but couldn't find anything similar which was both .NET Core compatible and properly open source, hence this library.

Currently it only supports reading text content and positions from the PDF but I hope to gradually port more features from PDFBox including encrypted content, images, colors, lines as well as writing PDF documents.

I'd be interested in getting feedback from users as well as potential contributors.

I particularly want to know:

• What features are missing you'd most like to see?
• How easy/difficult is the API to use, does it support the operations you want to run?
• Are there any documents you wanted to open that it did not support?

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