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Getting started

Read arbitrary PDF files

dotnetpdfnovolis

Prerequisites

  • .NET 10 (net10.0)
  • NuGet sources: nuget.org + GitHub Packages (https://nuget.pkg.github.com/Novolis-Platform/index.json)
  • Local multi-repo work: ProjectReference mode via -p:NovolisUseProjectReferences=true (see platform-project-ref-mode)

Install

dotnet add package Novolis.Pdf.Parsing
dotnet add package Novolis.Pdf.Rendering.Skia

Novolis.Pdf.Core, Novolis.Pdf.Rendering, Novolis.Pdf.Text, and Novolis.Pdf.Abstractions come along as dependencies. Add Novolis.Pdf.Documents and Novolis.Pdf.Platform when a host stores recent files or user-data paths.

Open and rasterize

using Novolis.Pdf.Abstractions;
using Novolis.Pdf.Core;
using Novolis.Pdf.Parsing;
using Novolis.Pdf.Rendering.Skia;

await using var source = PdfSources.OpenFile(@"C:\Users\frank\Documents\sample.pdf");
var document = await PdfParser.ParseAsync(source);
var page = await new PdfSkiaPageRenderer().RenderAsync(document, new PdfRenderRequest(0, 144));
await File.WriteAllBytesAsync("page0.png", page.PngBytes);

Build

dotnet build d:\novolis\novolis-pdf\Novolis.Pdf.slnx -p:NovolisUseProjectReferences=true
dotnet test d:\novolis\novolis-pdf\tests\Novolis.Pdf.Unit\Novolis.Pdf.Unit.csproj -p:NovolisUseProjectReferences=true