Gears IFilterHelper description
An excellent library for easy and fast text extraction in the .NET environment!

Gears.IFilterHelper is a .NET component that allows you to use IFilters to extract text from various formats like Adobe PDF, Microsoft Office, Zip, CHM and other formats.

Gears.IFilterHelper is a pure .NET library written in C# and can be used in any .NET applications.

Gears.IFilterHelper is a simple and focused component. Gears.IFilterHelper
not only wraps the IFilter API and simplifies its use, but also focuses on the main thing - extracting text.

Gears.IFilterHelper and IFilters allows you to add text extraction capabilities to your .NET applications in a few of lines of code.

Here are some key features of "Gears IFilterHelper":

· Extracts text from files
· Supports .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0
· C#, VB.NET and other CLS-compliant languages
· Works with any well-written IFilters
· Supports Adobe PDF IFilter 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0 for text extraction from PDF files from .NET
· Automatically detects installed IFilters


Requirements:

· .Net Framework 1.0 or later


Limitations:

· the nag text
· the 5 second delay, which occurs during execution of certain methods of Gears.IFilterHelper component.