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Parsing PDF Files using IFilter (C#, .NET)
How to extract text from PDF files using Microsoft IFilter interface and Adobe PDF IFilter implementation. 
Parsing PDF Files using iTextSharp (C#, .NET)
How to extract text from PDF files using iTextSharp library. Sample Visual Studio 2010 project included (C#).
How to Convert PDF to Text in .NET (VB)
How to extract plain text from PDF file using PDFBox.NET library. Sample Visual Studio project download (VB).
How to Convert PDF to Text in .NET (C#)
How to extract plain text from PDF file using PDFBox.NET library. Sample Visual Studio project download (C#).
PDFBox in .NET Performance
Calling the PDFBox through IKVM.NET brings a performance penalty. While the Java version of PDFBox parses a sample PDF file in 3 seconds it takes 10 seconds with PDFBox.NET.