Here is a starting point
pdftotext[
^]. Pdf files are complex documents, not easily converted to text. You'll have to deal with embedded fonts, postscript, images and more...
You can try looking at this:
http://aspdotnetcodebook.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-convert-pdf-file-to-text-in.html[
^]
This approach will at best only give you the text from the pdf file.
Alernatively you can use the xps printer and use someting like
this[
^] to display the result.
Good luck
Espen Harlinn