Reading PDF document with iTextSharp creates string with repeating first page - itext

Question

I currently use iTextSharp to read in some PDF files and parse them by using the string I receive. I have encountered a strange behavior with some PDF files. When getting the string back of a for example 4 page PDF, the string is filled with the pages in the following order:
1 2 1 3 1 4
My code for reading the files is as follows:
using (PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(fileStream))
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
ITextExtractionStrategy strategy = new SimpleTextExtractionStrategy();
for (int page = 0; page < reader.NumberOfPages; page++)
{
string text = PdfTextExtractor.GetTextFromPage(reader, page + 1, strategy);
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(text))
sb.Append(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(Encoding.Convert(Encoding.Default, Encoding.UTF8, Encoding.Default.GetBytes(text))));
}
Debug.WriteLine(sb.ToString());
}
Here is a link to a file with which this behaviour occurs:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=D9FEFF3BF45E05FD!1536&authkey=!AFLRlskAvlg89yY&ithint=file%2cpdf
Hope you guys can help me out!

Answer 1

Thanks to Chris Haas I found out was going wrong. The samples found online on how to use iTextSharp.Pdf are incorrect or incorrect for my implementation.
The SimpleTextExtractionStrategy needs to be instantiated for every page you try to read. Not doing this will multiply each previous page in the resulting string.
Also the line where the StringBuilder is being appended can be changed from:
sb.Append(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(Encoding.Convert(Encoding.Default, Encoding.UTF8, Encoding.Default.GetBytes(text))));
to
sb.Append(text);
Thus the following code gives the correct result:
using (PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(fileStream))
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (int page = 0; page < reader.NumberOfPages; page++)
{
string text = PdfTextExtractor.GetTextFromPage(reader, page + 1, new SimpleTextExtractionStrategy());
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(text))
sb.Append(text);
}
Debug.WriteLine(sb.ToString());
}