title: Reference Adobe Reader dll to control pdf?
body: <p>I am working on a Vb.net program in Visual Basic that takes a table of data from a pdf and puts it into an Excel doc. I want the program to work with Adobe reader so the user doesn't have to install Acrobat. I know there HAS to be a way to do this, and Adobe reader has a library called "AcroRd32" that I suspect would contain useful methods for doing this.</p>
  
  <p>I think it would be illegal to decompile the library to see how the methods control the pdf, so that's out. I know there are libraries like itextsharp that will do it, but I want to find my own solution. So can I reference the Adobe Reader(not Acrobat) libraries and try to copy the table of data? Would this work? Or make my own library to control it?</p>
  
  <p>I'm pretty much a beginner at .net so any help would be much appreciated. Thanks</p>