title: Extracting text from a PDF file
body: <p>I need to extract the text from a PDF file. This text will likely be in a table format, and it is going to be used for automatic transfer of data between an external party and our systems.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone suggest a command line tool (eg pdf to txt) or a library that would be good for this? </p>
  
  <p>Language options:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>C# (preferred)</li>
  <li>Java (if I must)</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I found some ideas here, but i think the guy was talking more about a one-off situation, i'm talking more like a daily import:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/488089/extracting-tables-from-pdf-files">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/488089/extracting-tables-from-pdf-files</a></p>