ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – C# – Extract Filled PDF Form Data with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to extract filled PDF form data with PDF extractor SDK in C# with ByteScout Data Extraction Suite

This code in C# shows how to extract filled PDF form data with PDF extractor SDK with this how to tutorial

These source code samples are assembled by their programming language and functions they apply. ByteScout Data Extraction Suite is the set that includes 3 SDK products for data extraction from PDF, scans, images and from spreadsheets: PDF Extractor SDK, Data Extraction SDK, Barcode Reader SDK. It can be applied to extract filled PDF form data with PDF extractor SDK using C#.

This prolific sample source code in C# for ByteScout Data Extraction Suite contains various functions and other necessary options you should do calling the API to extract filled PDF form data with PDF extractor SDK. Just copy and paste the code into your C# application’s code and follow the instructions. This basic programming language sample code for C# will do the whole work for you to extract filled PDF form data with PDF extractor SDK.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Xml;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;

namespace ExtractFilledFormData
{
	static class Program
	{
		static void Main()
		{
			// Create XMLExtractor instance
			XMLExtractor extractor = new XMLExtractor();
			extractor.RegistrationName = "demo";
			extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo";

			// Load sample PDF document
			extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(@".\filled_form.pdf");

			// Get PDF document text as XML
			string xmlText = extractor.GetXML();

			// Load XML
			XmlDocument xmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
			xmlDocument.LoadXml(xmlText);

			// Select all "control" nodes
			XmlNodeList formControls = xmlDocument.SelectNodes("//control");
			if (formControls != null)
			{
				foreach (XmlNode formControl in formControls)
				{
					XmlAttribute typeAttribute = formControl.Attributes["type"];

					// Show filled textboxes
					if (typeAttribute.Value == "editbox")
					{
						if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(formControl.InnerText))
							Console.WriteLine("EDITBOX " + formControl.Attributes["id"].Value + ": " + formControl.InnerText);
					}
					// Show checked checkboxes
					else if (typeAttribute.Value == "checkbox")
					{
						if (formControl.Attributes["state"].Value == "1")
						    Console.WriteLine("CHECKBOX " + formControl.Attributes["id"].Value + ": " + formControl.Attributes["state"].Value);
					}
				}
			}

			// Cleanup
			extractor.Dispose();

            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key...");
		    Console.ReadKey();
		}
	}
}