ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – C# – Merge Protected PDF Documents with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to merge protected PDF documents with PDF extractor SDK in C# and ByteScout Data Extraction Suite

If you want to learn more then this tutorial will show how to merge protected PDF documents with PDF extractor SDK in C#

ByteScout simple and easy to understand tutorials are planned to describe the code for both C# beginners and advanced programmers. 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 merge protected PDF documents with PDF extractor SDK using C#.

These C# code samples for C# guide developers to speed up coding of the application when using ByteScout Data Extraction Suite. 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 merge protected PDF documents with PDF extractor SDK.

Trial version of ByteScout Data Extraction Suite is available for free. Source code samples are included to help you with your C# app.

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Program.cs

      using System.Diagnostics;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;

namespace MergeDocuments
{
    //
    // This example demonstrates how to provide password for protected PDF files.
    //
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string[] inputFiles = new string[]
            {
                @".\encrypted1 (password is 'password').pdf", 
                @".\encrypted2 (password is 'password').pdf",
            };

            using (DocumentMerger merger = new DocumentMerger("demo", "demo"))
            {
                // Handle `PasswordRequired` event
                merger.PasswordRequired += new PasswordEventHandler(merger_PasswordRequired);

                // Ignore document permissions
                merger.CheckPermissions = false;

                merger.Merge(inputFiles, @".\result.pdf");
            }

            // Open result document in default associated application (for demo purpose)
            ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("result.pdf");
            processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
            Process.Start(processStartInfo);
        }

        static void merger_PasswordRequired(object sender, string document, ref string password)
        {
            // Ask user for password and return it using `password` parameter
            password = "password";
        }
    }
}