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How to convert images to PDF from urls asynchronously for image to PDF API in C# and ByteScout Cloud API Server

Step-by-step tutorial:How to convert images to PDF from urls asynchronously to have image to PDF API in C#

Quick guide:Learn how to convert images to PDF from urls asynchronously in C#. ByteScout Cloud API Server helps with image to PDF API in C#. ByteScout Cloud API Server is the ready to use Web API Server that can be deployed in less than 30 minutes into your own in-house server or into private cloud server. Can store data on in-house local server based storage or in Amazon AWS S3 bucket. Processing data solely on the server using buil-in ByteScout powered engine, no cloud services are used to process your data!.

C# code snippet like this for ByteScout Cloud API Server works best when you need to quickly implement image to PDF API in your C# application. This C# sample code can be used by copying and pasting into your project. Once done,just compile your project and click Run. Use of ByteScout Cloud API Server in C# is also described in the documentation given along with the product.

Trial version of ByteScout is available for free download from our website. This and other source code samples for C# and other programming languages are available.

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Program.cs
      
using System; using System.IO; using System.Net; using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq; using System.Threading; // Please NOTE: In this sample we're assuming Cloud Api Server is hosted at "https://localhost". // If it's not then please replace this with with your hosting url. // Cloud API asynchronous "Image To PDF" job example. // Allows to avoid timeout errors when processing huge or scanned PDF documents. namespace ByteScoutWebApiExample { class Program { // Direct URLs of image files to convert to PDF document static string[] SourceFiles = { "https://bytescout-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/image-to-pdf/image1.png", "https://bytescout-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/image-to-pdf/image2.jpg" }; // Destination PDF file name const string DestinationFile = @".\result.pdf"; // (!) Make asynchronous job const bool Async = true; static void Main(string[] args) { // Create standard .NET web client instance WebClient webClient = new WebClient(); // Prepare URL for `Image To PDF` API call string query = Uri.EscapeUriString(string.Format( "https://localhost/pdf/convert/from/image?name={0}&url={1}&async={2}", Path.GetFileName(DestinationFile), string.Join(",", SourceFiles), Async)); try { // Execute request string response = webClient.DownloadString(query); // Parse JSON response JObject json = JObject.Parse(response); if (json["error"].ToObject<bool>() == false) { // Asynchronous job ID string jobId = json["jobId"].ToString(); // URL of generated PDF file that will available after the job completion string resultFileUrl = json["url"].ToString(); // Check the job status in a loop. // If you don't want to pause the main thread you can rework the code // to use a separate thread for the status checking and completion. do { string status = CheckJobStatus(jobId); // Possible statuses: "working", "failed", "aborted", "success". // Display timestamp and status (for demo purposes) Console.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString() + ": " + status); if (status == "success") { // Download PDF file webClient.DownloadFile(resultFileUrl, DestinationFile); Console.WriteLine("Generated PDF file saved as \"{0}\" file.", DestinationFile); break; } else if (status == "working") { // Pause for a few seconds Thread.Sleep(3000); } else { Console.WriteLine(status); break; } } while (true); } else { Console.WriteLine(json["message"].ToString()); } } catch (WebException e) { Console.WriteLine(e.ToString()); } webClient.Dispose(); Console.WriteLine(); Console.WriteLine("Press any key..."); Console.ReadKey(); } static string CheckJobStatus(string jobId) { using (WebClient webClient = new WebClient()) { string url = "https://localhost/job/check?jobid=" + jobId; string response = webClient.DownloadString(url); JObject json = JObject.Parse(response); return Convert.ToString(json["status"]); } } } }

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packages.config
      
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <packages> <package id="Newtonsoft.Json" version="10.0.3" targetFramework="net40" /> </packages>

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