ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – C# – Extract Text By Columns from PDF with PDF Extractor SDK

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ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – C# – Extract Text By Columns from PDF with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to extract text by columns from PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C# with ByteScout Data Extraction Suite

Continuous learning is a crucial part of computer science and this tutorial shows how to extract text by columns from PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C#

Source code documentation samples give simple and easy method to install a needed feature into your application. 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 extract text by columns from PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C#.

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 extract text by columns from PDF with PDF extractor SDK. Simply copy and paste in your C# project or application you and then run your app! This basic programming language sample code for C# will do the whole work for you to extract text by columns from PDF with PDF extractor SDK.

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Program.cs

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

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

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

            // Extract text by columns (useful if PDF document is designed in column layout like a newspaper)
            extractor.ExtractColumnByColumn = true;

            // Save extracted text to file
            extractor.SaveTextToFile(@".\result.txt");

            // Cleanup
            extractor.Dispose();

            // Open result file in default associated application
            ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(@".\result.txt");
            processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
            Process.Start(processStartInfo);
        }
    }
}