Avoid A Possible Hang By Limiting The Time A Method Is Allowed To Take?

I am using an external DLL (pdfsharp) to open (then manipulate) lots of PDF files. I use: Dim inputDocument = Pdf.IO.PdfReader.Open(PDFPath, IO.PdfDocumentOpenMode.ReadOnly) Problem is - it seems to hang on certain, rare files. I don't seem to get any timeout - it just hangs for hours on this line. We read thousands of files with this code, always on tiny files, so I was thinking that a quick workaround might be to somehow timeout if the this method takes more than a second or two. But I don't see a simple way to do this. I am hoping to avoid spinning up a worker thread.