ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – C# – Convert PDF To JSON With Images with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to convert PDF to JSON with images with PDF extractor SDK in C# with ByteScout Data Extraction Suite

If you want to learn more then this tutorial will show how to convert PDF to JSON with images with PDF extractor SDK in C#

ByteScout simple and easy to understand tutorials are planned to describe the code for both C# beginners and advanced programmers. ByteScout Data Extraction Suite can convert PDF to JSON with images with PDF extractor SDK. It can be applied from C#. ByteScout Data Extraction Suite is the bundle that includes three SDK tools for data extraction from PDF, scans, images and from spreadsheets: PDF Extractor SDK, Data Extraction SDK, Barcode Reader SDK.

Want to quickly learn? This fast application programming interfaces of ByteScout Data Extraction Suite for C# plus the guidelines and the code below will help you quickly learn how to convert PDF to JSON with images with PDF extractor SDK. Simply copy and paste in your C# project or application you and then run your app! Use of ByteScout Data Extraction Suite in C# is also described in the documentation included along with the product.

You can download free trial version of ByteScout Data Extraction Suite from our website with this and other source code samples for C#.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.JSONExtractor instance
            JSONExtractor extractor = new JSONExtractor();
            extractor.RegistrationName = "demo";
            extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo";

            // Load sample PDF document
            extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample1.pdf");

            // Uncomment this line to get rid of empty nodes in JSON
            //extractor.PreserveFormattingOnTextExtraction = false;

            // Set output image format
            extractor.ImageFormat = OutputImageFormat.PNG;
            
            // Save images to external files
            extractor.SaveImages = ImageHandling.OuterFile;
            extractor.ImageFolder = "images"; // Folder for external images
            extractor.SaveJSONToFile("result_with_external_images.json");

            // Embed images into JSON as Base64 encoded string
            extractor.SaveImages = ImageHandling.Embed;
            extractor.SaveJSONToFile("result_with_embedded_images.json");

            // Cleanup
			extractor.Dispose();
        }
    }
}