title: Extracting text from PDFs in C#
body: <p>Pretty simply, I need to rip text out of multiple PDFs (quite a lot actually) in order to analyse the contents before sticking it in an SQL database.</p>
  
  <p>I've found some pretty sketchy free C# libraries that sort of work (the best one uses iTextSharp), but there are umpteen formatting errors and some characters are scrambled and alot of the time there are spaces (' ') EVERYWHERE - inside words, between every letter, huge blocks of them taking up several lines, it all seems a bit random.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any easy way of doing this that I'm completely overlooking (quite likely!) or is it a bit of an arduous task that involves converting the extracted byte values into letters reliably?</p>