Reading lines in .xps file programmatically using vb.net

I am using VB.NET and I am trying to read each line from an .xps file. I have found the code to access the file and display it using the by importing System.Windows.Xps.Packaging. I now need help to read the file and access the tables in the file and I also need to know if certain text is bold and red.

Please help....

.NET ProgrammingVisual Basic.NETC#

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darbid73

8/22/2022 - Mon

darbid73

4/20/2016

With respect to just reading your text this is one possible way.

Dim xpsDoc As New XpsDocument("/pathToYourFile", System.IO.FileAccess.Read)
Dim fixedDocSeqReader As IXpsFixedDocumentSequenceReader = xpsDoc.FixedDocumentSequenceReader
Dim doc As IXpsFixedDocumentReader = fixedDocSeqReader.FixedDocuments(0)
Dim page As IXpsFixedPageReader = doc.FixedPages(documentViewerElement.MasterPageNumber)
Dim curText As New StringBuilder()

Dim pgReader As System.Xml.XmlReader = page.XmlReader

If pgReader IsNot Nothing Then
	While pgReader.Read()
		If pgReader.Name = "Glyphs" Then
			If pgReader.HasAttributes Then
				If pgReader.GetAttribute("UnicodeString") IsNot Nothing Then
					_currentText.Append(pgReader.GetAttribute("UnicodeString"))
				End If
			End If
		End If
	End While
End If

Dim allText As String = curText.ToString

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Natavia Finnie

4/20/2016

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Dim page As IXpsFixedPageReader = doc.FixedPages(documentViewerElement.MasterPageNumber) gives me an error say 'documentViewerElement' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to protection level.

When i put Dim page As IXpsFixedPageReader = doc.FixedPages(0) then page returns {None}

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