I am trying to reinvent the wheel with pdf2book.com - goal is to convert a pdf file into images, then into a booklet form or video, similar to issuu.com

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I haven't programmed in over 25 years, I was a guru at C (and pointers!), but things have changed...blazor, razor, .net, python, c#, etc... I have visual studio, and am wondering whether to go w/ Python or C# - I assume only server-side programming (hopefully w/ Wix or Wordpress, if not I will get FTP access and work on raw files)... Which is best for this task, Python (Django?) or C#?? - and what about Razor, Blazor, etc, how can I use these packages... The website (pdf2book.com) will take as input as pdf file, send it to server, and server will deliver to the browser-client something similar to issuu.com, with the potential option of downloading a proprietary e-book format as a standalone executable or which can be viewed with a proprietary viewer either through HTML client, or a stand-alone "reader" app... Thanks... Ps I have Visual Studio installed.....

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I haven't programmed in over 25 years, I was a guru at C (and pointers!), but things have changed...blazor, razor, .net, python, c#, etc... I have visual studio, and am wondering whether to go w/ Python or C# - I assume only server-side programming (hopefully w/ Wix or Wordpress, if not I will get FTP access and work on raw files)... Which is best for this task, Python (Django?) or C#?? - and what about Razor, Blazor, etc, how can I use these packages... The website (pdf2book.com) will take as input as pdf file, send it to server, and server will deliver to the browser-client something similar to issuu.com, with the potential option of downloading a proprietary e-book format as a standalone executable or which can be viewed with a proprietary viewer either through HTML client, or a stand-alone "reader" app... Thanks... Ps I have Visual Studio installed.....

Posted 5-Oct-20 14:14pm

Santos Perez

Updated 5-Oct-20 21:59pm

Richard MacCutchan

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BillWoodruff 6-Oct-20 2:05am

Try something !

Richard MacCutchan 6-Oct-20 3:59am

C# is probably the best choice. You can then use the free iTextSharp library to manipulate PDF files.

Santos Perez 6-Oct-20 16:13pm

Thank you, downloading itextSharp today....

[no name] 6-Oct-20 11:47am

A program that converts a PDF to a proprietary format for a proprietary viewer. Hard to picture what could be added to a PDF that would require a proprietary process; and an "intermediate" one at that. An all-in-one ("special") viewer, maybe.

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