Library for extracting text from different file types, PDF, DOC, DOCX, TXT C #

Question

I create an information retrieval system that searches for text in multiple file formats, I tried EPocalipse IFilter Lirary, but through an exception when trying to read docx files , and I tried the Toxy Library, although the exception for doc is Arabic files, finally I tried TikaOnDotNet Libray, but he needs to run java, and I need to put the system online on a hosting that does not have Java installed on the server

Answer 1

How about using such libraries:

For DOC / DOCX: http://www.dotnetperls.com/word

For PDF: https://github.com/itext/itextsharp

For TXT: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143368(v=vs.110).aspx

Answer 2

A library that can extract all text data from files of any type is an Apache Tika library . It can even extract metadata (if any) from non-text files such as image and video files. Examples of use are shown here .