title: How to Build PDFBox for .Net
body: <p>I've seen examples for extracting text from pdf files that either use ITextSharp or PDFBox. PDFBox seems to be the most "reliable" method for extracting text, but it requires many additional steps. </p>
  
  <p>I've tried to build the dll's using the instructions found <a href="http://pdfbox.apache.org/userguide/dot_net.html">here</a>, but I have no idea how to correctly build the required files for .Net.</p>
  
  <p>I'm pretty lost, could someone provide a "Include PDFBox in your .Net application for Dummies" step by step?</p>