New Post: Send output to variable in place of file

I have the following code that simply converts the first page of a pdf to text.

        Dim gVER As GhostscriptVersionInfo = _
                    GhostscriptVersionInfo.GetLastInstalledVersion(Ghostscript.NET.GhostscriptLicense.GPL, _
                                                                   Ghostscript.NET.GhostscriptLicense.GPL)

        Dim gP As New Ghostscript.NET.Processor.GhostscriptProcessor(gVER, True)

        Dim Myargs As New List(Of String)
        With Myargs
            .Add("-q")
            .Add("-dSAFER")
            .Add("-dBATCH")
            .Add("-dNOPAUSE")
            .Add("-dNOPROMPT")
            .Add("-dFirstPage=1")
            .Add("-dLastPage=1")
            .Add("-sDEVICE=txtwrite")
            .Add("-sOutputFile=c:\MyFolder\output.txt")
            .Add("-fc:\MyFolder\hello.pdf")
        End With

        gP.Process(Myargs.ToArray)

After above is done, I have to read the output file back into a string variable.

Is there anyway to send the output into some kind of file stream variable in place of sending out to a text file? (I actually don’t need to keep nor want the text file).

Open to any suggestions.

Albert D. Kallal (Access MVP)
Edmonton, Alberta Canada