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How to convert PDF to PNG from URL asynchronously for PDF to image API in C# using ByteScout Cloud API Server

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

The sample source codes on this page will show you how to create PDF to image API in C#. ByteScout Cloud API Server helps with PDF to image 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!.

This simple and easy to understand sample source code in C# for ByteScout Cloud API Server contains different functions and options you should do calling the API to implement PDF to image API. For implementation of this functionality, please copy and paste the code below into your app using code editor. Then compile and run your app. Writing C# application mostly includes various stages of the software development so even if the functionality works please check it with your data and the production environment.

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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 "PDF To PNG" job example. // Allows to avoid timeout errors when processing huge or scanned PDF documents. namespace ByteScoutWebApiExample { class Program { // Source PDF file const string SourceFileUrl = @"https://bytescout-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/pdf-to-image/sample.pdf"; // Comma-separated list of page indices (or ranges) to process. Leave empty for all pages. Example: '0,2-5,7-'. const string Pages = ""; // PDF document password. Leave empty for unprotected documents. const string Password = ""; // (!) Make asynchronous job const bool Async = true; static void Main(string[] args) { // Create standard .NET web client instance WebClient webClient = new WebClient(); try { // Prepare URL for `PDF To PNG` API call string query = Uri.EscapeUriString(string.Format( "https://localhost/pdf/convert/to/png?password={0}&pages={1}&url={2}&async={3}", Password, Pages, SourceFileUrl, Async)); // 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 JSON file available after the job completion; it will contain URLs of result PNG files. string resultJsonFileUrl = 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 JSON file as string string jsonFileString = webClient.DownloadString(resultJsonFileUrl); JArray resultFilesUrls = JArray.Parse(jsonFileString); // Download generated PNG files int page = 1; foreach (JToken token in resultFilesUrls) { string resultFileUrl = token.ToString(); string localFileName = String.Format(@".\page{0}.png", page); webClient.DownloadFile(resultFileUrl, localFileName); Console.WriteLine("Downloaded \"{0}\".", localFileName); page++; } 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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