In this tutorial, we will learn how to read PDF file in C++. You can extract text or images from any page or whole document of the PDF file with simple API calls in C++. The feature is not dependent on Adobe Acrobat or any application for reading PDF on Windows or Linux platforms.

Steps to Read PDF File in C++

1. Install the Aspose.Pdf for C++ from NuGet package manager tool
2. Add the reference to Aspose::Pdf namespace
3. Load input PDF using Document Class
4. Initialize a TextFragmentAbsorber class instance
5. Print the extracted text on console
6. Iterate through each page and image of document
7. Save the extracted output image as a JPG file

You can open and read pdf file in C++ with few simple lines of code. It can efficiently extract all the text and images from the PDF file.

Code to Read PDF File in C++

In the previous topic, we explored How to Flatten PDF Form Fields in C#. This topic focuses on how to read text from PDF file in C++.