In order to get color information when using an ITextExtractionStrategy in iTextSharp (5.1.1.0) you need to make the following changes to main iTextSharp code. Once you make these changes you can follow my SO post here for getting font information as well. iTextSharp.text.pdf.parser.GraphicsState.cs iTextSharp.text.pdf.parser.PdfContentStreamProcessor.cs iTextSharp.text.pdf.parser.TextRenderInfo.cs This code is very experimental…