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How to convert PDF to HTML from URL for PDF to HTML API in VB.NET with ByteScout Cloud API Server

How to convert PDF to HTML from URL in VB.NET with easy ByteScout code samples to make PDF to HTML API. Step-by-step tutorial

The documentation is written to assist you to apply all the necessary features on your side. PDF to HTML API in VB.NET can be applied with ByteScout Cloud API Server. 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!.

Use the code displayed below in your application to save a lot of time on writing and testing code. Open your VB.NET project and simply copy & paste the code and then run your app! Easy to understand tutorials are available along with installed ByteScout Cloud API Server if you’d like to learn more about the topic and the details of the API.

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

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Module1.vb
      
Imports System.IO Imports System.Net Imports Newtonsoft.Json.Linq ' 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. Module Module1 ' Direct URL of source PDF file. Const SourceFileUrl As String = "https://bytescout-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/pdf-to-html/sample.pdf" ' Comma-separated list of page indices (or ranges) to process. Leave empty for all pages. Example: '0,2-5,7-'. const Pages as String = "" ' PDF document password. Leave empty for unprotected documents. const Password As String = "" ' Destination HTML file name const DestinationFile as String = ".\result.html" ' Set to `true` to get simplified HTML without CSS. Default is the rich HTML keeping the document design. const PlainHtml as Boolean = False ' Set to `true` if your document has the column layout like a newspaper. const ColumnLayout as Boolean = False Sub Main() ' Create standard .NET web client instance Dim webClient As WebClient = New WebClient() ' Prepare URL for `PDF To HTML` API call Dim query As String = Uri.EscapeUriString(String.Format( "https://localhost/pdf/convert/to/html?name={0}&password={1}&pages={2}&simple={3}&columns={4}&url={5}", Path.GetFileName(DestinationFile), Password, Pages, PlainHtml, ColumnLayout, SourceFileUrl)) Try ' Execute request Dim response As String = webClient.DownloadString(query) ' Parse JSON response Dim json As JObject = JObject.Parse(response) If json("error").ToObject(Of Boolean) = False Then ' Get URL of generated HTML file Dim resultFileUrl As String = json("url").ToString() ' Download HTML file webClient.DownloadFile(resultFileUrl, DestinationFile) Console.WriteLine("Generated HTML file saved as ""{0}"" file.", DestinationFile) Else Console.WriteLine(json("message").ToString()) End If Catch ex As WebException Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString()) End Try webClient.Dispose() Console.WriteLine() Console.WriteLine("Press any key...") Console.ReadKey() End Sub End Module

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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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