Class TextContent

Extracted text content outside of tables

Provides methods to access text content for the entire document or specific pages.

Inheritance

System.Object

TextContent

Namespace: IronPdf.Extractions

Assembly: IronPdf.dll

Syntax

public class TextContent : Object

Remarks

When table extraction is enabled, this class returns only the text that is outside detected table regions.

If table extraction is disabled, all text on the page is returned (including text inside tables), because table boundaries are not available.

Constructors

TextContent()

Declaration

public TextContent()

Properties

PageTexts

Text organized by page

Dictionary containing text content for each page.

Key is the page number (1-based), value is the PageText for that page.

Declaration

public Dictionary<int, PageText> PageTexts { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<System.Int32, PageText>

RawText

Raw text from all pages concatenated

Contains the text content of all pages in the document, concatenated together.

When table extraction is enabled, this contains only text located outside detected tables.

When table extraction is disabled, this contains all text including text inside tables.

Declaration

public string RawText { get; }

Property Value

Type	Description
System.String

Methods

GetText()

Gets the raw text of the entire document

Returns the text content of all pages in the document, concatenated together.

Returns only outside-table text when table extraction is enabled; otherwise returns all text (tables included).

Declaration

public string GetText()

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	Raw text of the entire document

GetTextByPage(Int32)

Gets the raw text for a specific page

Returns the text content of the specified page.

Declaration

public string GetTextByPage(int pageNumber)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.Int32	pageNumber	Page number (1-based)

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	Text content of the specified page

Exceptions

Type	Condition
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException	Thrown when: pageNumber is less than 1 pageNumber is greater than the total number of pages

GetTextByPageRange(Int32, Int32)

Gets the raw text for a page range

Returns the text content of all pages in the specified range, concatenated together.

Declaration

public string GetTextByPageRange(int startPage, int endPage)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
System.Int32	startPage	Starting page number (1-based, inclusive)
System.Int32	endPage	Ending page number (1-based, inclusive)

Returns

Type	Description
System.String	Text content of the specified page range

Exceptions

Type	Condition
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException	Thrown when: startPage is less than 1 endPage is less than 1 endPage is less than startPage Either startPage or endPage exceeds the total number of pages in the document