ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – C# – Make Searchable PDF and Fix Rotated Pages with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to make searchable PDF and fix rotated pages with PDF extractor SDK in C# and ByteScout Data Extraction Suite

Learning is essential in computer world and the tutorial below will demonstrate how to make searchable PDF and fix rotated pages with PDF extractor SDK in C#

These sample source codes on this page below are displaying how to make searchable PDF and fix rotated pages with PDF extractor SDK in C#. Want to make searchable PDF and fix rotated pages with PDF extractor SDK in your C# app? ByteScout Data Extraction Suite is designed for it. 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 make searchable PDF and fix rotated pages with PDF extractor SDK. This C# sample code is all you need for your app. Just copy and paste the code, add references (if needs to) and you are all set! Applying C# application mostly includes various stages of the software development so even if the functionality works please test it with your data and the production environment.

The trial version of ByteScout Data Extraction Suite can be downloaded for free from our website. It also includes source code samples for C# and other programming languages.

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Program.cs

      using System.Diagnostics;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;

// To make OCR work you should references "Bytescout.PDFExtractor.dll" and "Bytescout.PDFExtractor.OCRExtension.dll" from your project.

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

            // Load sample PDF document
            searchablePDFMaker.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample_ocr_with_rotatedPage.pdf");

            // Set the location of language data files
            searchablePDFMaker.OCRLanguageDataFolder = @"c:\Program Files\Bytescout PDF Extractor SDK\ocrdata\";

            // Set OCR language
            searchablePDFMaker.OCRLanguage = "eng"; // "eng" for english, "deu" for German, "fra" for French, "spa" for Spanish etc - according to files in "ocrdata" folder

            // Set PDF document rendering resolution
            searchablePDFMaker.OCRResolution = 300;

            // Detect Page Rotation
            searchablePDFMaker.OCRDetectPageRotation = true;

            // Save extracted text to file
            searchablePDFMaker.MakePDFSearchable("output.pdf");

            // Cleanup
            searchablePDFMaker.Dispose();

            // Open output file in default associated application
            ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("output.pdf");
            processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
            Process.Start(processStartInfo);
        }
    }
}