Issue importing iText .net lib using pythonnet #1182

Environment

• Pythonnet version: 2.5.1
• Python version: 3.7
• Operating System: Windows7
• iText version 7.1.11.0 (dotnet4)

Details

I'm using Python.NET to create small wrapper for iText (https://github.com/itext/itext7-dotnet).
With Jetbrain dotPeek I see that itext.kernel (the dll I'm trying to use) has various namespaces; the namespace iText.Kernel.Pdf is what I need, in particular the public class PdfReader is what I want to use.

Here's what I'm doing:

import clr
clr.AddReference('itext.kernel')
sys.path.append(os.getcwd())  # the script is currently in the dll folder
from iText.Kernel.Pdf import PdfReader

But the last line gets me a:

 "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'iText'" error.

I am able to load other dlls and use them just fine, but I don't get what is wrong here.
Can someone please point me to the right direction? Thanks.

edit: I can import and use iTextSharp just fine (different namespaces / classes), it seems iText7 has something different.