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

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

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

If you want to learn more then this tutorial will show how to make searchable PDF with PDF extractor SDK in C#

Every ByteScout tool includes simple example C# source codes that you can get here or in the folder with installed ByteScout product. 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 and you can use it to make searchable PDF with PDF extractor SDK with 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 make searchable PDF with PDF extractor SDK. Just copy and paste the code into your C# application’s code and follow the instructions. Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample codes in C#.

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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 PDF document
            searchablePDFMaker.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample_ocr.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;

            // 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);
        }
    }
}