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Fully managed library for converting PDF files to SVG. Potential usage is seamlessly embedding PDFs on your site without the need of a PDF reader.

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• Extracts text, fonts and images from PDF files into SVG
• Supports .NET 5, .NET Core 1.0, .NET Standard 1.6, .NET Framework 4.0 and later
• Focus on producing compact SVG markup ready for the web
• Dependency free

Install thePdfToSvg.NET NuGet package.

PM> Install-Package PdfToSvg.NET

Open a PDF document by callingPdfDocument.Open. CallSaveAsSvg() on each page to convert it to an SVG file.

using(vardoc=PdfDocument.Open("input.pdf")){varpageNo=1;foreach(varpageindoc.Pages){page.SaveAsSvg($"output-{pageNo++}.svg");}}

Note that if you parse the XML returned from PdfToSvg.NET, you need to preserve space and not add indentation.Otherwise text will not be rendered correctly in the modified markup.

You can also download theCLI version of PdfToSvg.NET and use it from the command line.

pdftosvg.exe input.pdf output.svg

Command line reference