Extract Font from PDF using C#

This article guides on how to extract font from PDF using C# for further analysis, editing, and debugging. It will share details to set the IDE, a list of steps for developing the application, and a running code to extract Font from PDF Acrobat using C#. You can access and display all the properties of the extracted font and save it on the disk if required.

Steps to Extract Font File from PDF using C#

  1. Set the IDE to use Aspose.PDF to extract fonts
  2. Load the source PDF file with the Document class object by setting the PDF file name
  3. Fetch all the fonts in the loaded PDF using the FontUtilities class
  4. Iterate through the collection of fonts
  5. Create a memory stream and save the fetched font on the disk if required
  6. Display different properties of the font on the console

These steps explain how to extract font from PDF file using C#. Load the PDF file into the Document class object and get all fonts list using the FontUtilities class. Iterate through all the fonts in the list, display their properties, and optionally save them into the memory stream for creating a font file on the disk.

Code to Extract Font from PDF File using C#

This code has demonstrated the process of how to extract font from PDF using C#. If you want to extract the embedded fonts, use the flag IsEmbedded for each font and process it accordingly. The Font class exposes various other properties that can be accessed, such as the IsAccessible flag showing if the font is installed on the system and getting the last font embedding error.

This article has taught us the process of accessing and displaying fonts in a PDF file. To convert a URL to a PDF, refer to the article on Convert URL to PDF using C#.

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