ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – C# – Make Searchable PDF from Image with PDF Extractor SDK

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ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – C# – Make Searchable PDF from Image with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to make searchable PDF from image with PDF extractor SDK in C# using ByteScout Data Extraction Suite

Learn to code in C# to make searchable PDF from image with PDF extractor SDK with this step-by-step tutorial

The code displayed below will guide you to install an C# app to make searchable PDF from image with PDF extractor SDK. ByteScout Data Extraction Suite can make searchable PDF from image 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.

These C# code samples for C# guide developers to speed up coding of the application when using ByteScout Data Extraction Suite. 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! If you want to use these C# sample examples in one or many applications then they can be used easily.

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

            // Load sample Image document
            searchablePDFMaker.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample_ocr.jpg");
            
            // Set the location of OCR 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;

            // 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);
        }
    }
}