iText not returning text contents of a PDF after first page - itext

Question

I am trying to use the iText library with c# to capture the text portion of pdf files.
I created a pdf from excel 2013 (exported) and then copied the sample from the web of how to use itext (added the lib ref to the project).
It reads perfectly the first page but it gets garbled info after that. It is keeping part of the first page and merging the info with the next page. The commented lines is when I was trying to solve the problem, the string "thePage" is recreated inside the for loop.
Here is the code. I can email the pdf to whoever can help with this issue.
Thanks in advance
public static string ExtractTextFromPdf(string path)
{
ITextExtractionStrategy its = new iTextSharp.text.pdf.parser.LocationTextExtractionStrategy();
using (PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(path))
{
StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder();
//string[] theLines;
//theLines = new string[COLUMNS];
//string thePage;
for (int i = 1; i <= reader.NumberOfPages; i++)
{
string thePage = "";
thePage = PdfTextExtractor.GetTextFromPage(reader, i, its);
string [] theLines = thePage.Split('\n');
foreach (var theLine in theLines)
{
text.AppendLine(theLine);
}
// text.AppendLine(" ");
// Array.Clear(theLines, 0, theLines.Length);
// thePage = "";
}
return text.ToString();
}
}

Answer 1

A strategy object collects text data and does not know if a new page has started or not.
Thus, use a new strategy object for each page.