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How to convert PDF to text from URL for PDF to text API in C# and ByteScout Cloud API Server

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

Check these thousands of pre-made source code samples for simple implementation in your own programming projects. ByteScout Cloud API Server was designed to assist PDF to text 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!.

Want to learn quickly? These fast application programming interfaces of ByteScout Cloud API Server for C# plus the instruction and the code below will help to learn how to convert PDF to text from URL. 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.

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; // 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. namespace ByteScoutWebApiExample { class Program { // Direct URL of source PDF file. const string SourceFileUrl = "https://bytescout-com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/demo-files/cloud-api/pdf-to-text/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 = ""; // Destination TXT file name const string DestinationFile = @".\result.txt"; static void Main(string[] args) { // Create standard .NET web client instance WebClient webClient = new WebClient(); // Prepare URL for `PDF To TXT` API call string query = Uri.EscapeUriString(string.Format( "https://localhost/pdf/convert/to/text?name={0}&password={1}&pages={2}&url={3}", Path.GetFileName(DestinationFile), Password, Pages, SourceFileUrl)); try { // Execute request string response = webClient.DownloadString(query); // Parse JSON response JObject json = JObject.Parse(response); if (json["error"].ToObject<bool>() == false) { // Get URL of generated TXT file string resultFileUrl = json["url"].ToString(); // Download TXT file webClient.DownloadFile(resultFileUrl, DestinationFile); Console.WriteLine("Generated TXT file saved as \"{0}\" file.", DestinationFile); } else { Console.WriteLine(json["message"].ToString()); } } catch (WebException e) { Console.WriteLine(e.ToString()); } webClient.Dispose(); Console.WriteLine(); Console.WriteLine("Press any key..."); Console.ReadKey(); } } }

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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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