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-This project allows users to read text content from PDF files.
+This project allows users to read and extract text and other content from PDF files. In addition the library can be used to create simple PDF documents
+containing text and geometrical shapes.
 
 This project aims to port [PDFBox](https://github.com/apache/pdfbox) to C#.