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Getting Started with Telerik Document Processing

Telerik Document Processing includes a set of cross-platform libraries that let you import and export content between different document formats and work with archive files. The required references come with the installation files of several Telerik suites. They are also available in the internal builds of the same Telerik suites. Learn which products include Telerik Document Processing in the Product Bundles.

More information about the suites that include Telerik Document Processing and how to install them is available in the Installing on Your Computer article.

Please install <PackageReference Include="Telerik.Licensing" Version="1.*" />.

The following tables list all Telerik Document Processing packages for the different platforms and their roles:

The .NET Standard packages are compatible with any .NET version (e.g .NET 9), even if there are no packages explicitly available for the specific versions. The same applies to the .NET Framework packages.

Packages for .NET Standard (Support for .NET 8, .NET 9 and .NET 10)

Packagea Name Description
Telerik.Documents.Core The main package from the Telerik document processing libraries. You always need it when you intend to use the library.
Telerik.Documents.Flow Part of the words (text) processing library. It is needed for processing HTML, DOCX, RTF and TXT documents.
Telerik.Documents.DrawingML Part of the words (text) processing library. It is needed for working with shapes inside the documents.
Telerik.Documents.Flow.FormatProviders.Doc Allows importing of DOC and DOT document.
Telerik.Documents.Flow.FormatProviders.Pdf Allows exporting of flow documents (DOCX, DOC, DOT, RTF, and HTML) to PDF.
Telerik.Documents.Fixed Part of the PDF processing library. It is needed for working with PDF documents.
Telerik.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Ocr This package is needed for the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) functionality.
Telerik.Documents.Tesseract.Ocr This package is needed for the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) functionality.
Telerik.Documents.ImageUtils This package is required when exporting to PDF format a document containing images different than Jpeg and Jpeg2000 or ImageQuality different than High. For more information check the PdfProcessing`s Cross-Platform Support article.
Telerik.Documents.CMapUtils Provides a default implementation for getting the data of a predefined CMap table by a given name. The package is optional and you will need to include a reference to it only if you need to process documents with CMap tables.
Telerik.Documents.Spreadsheet The main package for the spreadsheet processing. It is needed for processing XLSX, CSV, TXT documents.
Telerik.Documents.Spreadsheet.FormatProviders.OpenXml This package is needed for processing XLSX documents.
Telerik.Documents.Spreadsheet.FormatProviders.Pdf This package is needed for exporting to PDF documents.
Telerik.Documents.Spreadsheet.FormatProviders.Xls This package is needed for processing XLS documents.
Telerik.Documents.SpreadsheetStreaming The main package for generating huge spreadsheet files using minimum resources.
Telerik.Zip It is the main package of the Telerik Zip Library.

Assemblies for .NET Framework

package Name Description
Telerik.Windows.Documents.Core The main package from the Telerik document processing libraries. You always need it when you intend to use the library.
Telerik.Windows.Documents.Flow Part of the words (text) processing library. It is needed for processing HTML, DOCX, RTF and TXT documents.
Telerik.Windows.Documents.DrawingML Part of the words (text) processing library. It is needed for working with shapes inside the documents.
Telerik.Windows.Documents.Flow.FormatProviders.Doc Allows importing of DOC and DOT document.
Telerik.Windows.Documents.Flow.FormatProviders.Pdf Allows exporting of flow documents (DOCX, DOC, DOT, RTF, and HTML) to PDF.
Telerik.Documents.SpreadsheetStreaming The main package for generating huge spreadsheet files using minimum resources.
Telerik.Windows.Documents.Spreadsheet The main package for the spreadsheet processing. It is needed for processing XLSX, CSV, TXT documents.
Telerik.Windows.Documents.Spreadsheet.FormatProviders.OpenXml This package is needed for processing XLSX documents.
Telerik.Windows.Documents.Spreadsheet.FormatProviders.Xls This package is needed for processing XLS documents.
Telerik.Windows.Documents.Spreadsheet.FormatProviders.Pdf This package is needed for processing PDF documents.
Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed Part of the PDF processing library. It is needed for working with PDF documents.
Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Ocr This package is needed for the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) functionality.
Telerik.Windows.Documents.Tesseract.Ocr This package is needed for the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) functionality.
Telerik.Windows.Documents.CMapUtils Provides a default implementation for getting the data of a predefined CMap table by a given name. The package is optional and you will need to include a reference to it only if you need to process documents with CMap tables.
Telerik.Windows.Zip It is the main package of the Telerik Zip Library.
Telerik.Windows.Zip.Extensions Extends Telerik.Windows.Zip package with additional helper methods (Zip Extensions).

The libraries support .NET 4.6.2 and later. .NET Standard-compatible packages are available as well. The packages for .NET Standard don't include 'Windows' in their names.

Getting Started Resources by Library

More information about each of the Telerik Document Processing libraries is available in the articles listed below.

Words (text) processing

Spreadsheet processing

Fast spreadsheet generation

PDF processing

Working with ZIP files

See Also

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