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Extracting text from a password protected document

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Topic: Extracting text from a password protected document

Posted By: robinto
Subject: Extracting text from a password protected document
Date Posted: 22 Sep 10 at 10:51AM

Hello,

I cannot extract text from a password protected PDF file by calling the ExtractFilePageText() method. I use the latest DLL version in C#.
The password was set in Adobe Acrobat 9, the compatibility to "Acrobat 7 or later". The ExtractFilePageText() returns an empty string. When I remove the password protection, everything works fine. Am I doing something wrong or is it a known bug/feature, please?
Thanks in advance.

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Posted By: robinto
Date Posted: 22 Sep 10 at 12:43PM

I found a solution: I open the document with LoadFromFile() and extract text by calling GetPageText().