full text search of pdf and extract the content

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Hi Guys

I found a similar project called hoot which find the pdf according to the given user query

but it doesn't show the content of relevant words matches. I would like to have some help how to extract the content and show it separately from the pdf without just showing the location.

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Posted 23-Apr-13 6:35am

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**Zoltán Zörgő** · Answer 1 · 2013-04-23T07:33:00

You have to extract the text from the file. You can use the IFilter interface and an implementation of it for PDF.
See following links:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5542[^] read note on the page about 32 bit version
Using IFilter in C#[^]
Converting PDF to Text in C#[^]
C# search engine: refactored to search Word, PDF and more[^]