ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – C# – Set Configuration Profiles with PDF Extractor SDK

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How to set configuration profiles with PDF extractor SDK in C# and ByteScout Data Extraction Suite

Step-by-step tutorial on how to set configuration profiles with PDF extractor SDK in C#

We made thousands of pre-made source code pieces for easy implementation in your own programming projects. 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 set configuration profiles with PDF extractor SDK with C#.

These C# code samples for C# guide developers to speed up coding of the application when using ByteScout Data Extraction Suite. Follow the instructions from scratch to work and copy the C# code. 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.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;

namespace Profiles
{
    /// <summary>
    /// This example demonstrates the use of profiles. Profiles are set of properties 
    /// allowing to apply them to Extractor in any combination quickly. You can use 
    /// predefined profiles or create you own in JSON format like in this example.
    /// </summary>
	class Program
	{
		static void Main(string[] args)
		{
			// Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor instance
			TextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor();
			extractor.RegistrationName = "demo";
			extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo";
            extractor.OCRLanguageDataFolder = @"c:\Program Files\Bytescout PDF Extractor SDK\ocrdata";

			// Load sample PDF document
            extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample_ocr.pdf");

            // Apply predefined profiles
            extractor.Profiles = "ocr, newspaper-layout";
            // Extract text to file
			extractor.SaveTextToFile("result1.txt");


            extractor.Reset();

            
            // Load another document
            extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample_ocr.pdf");
			
            // Load and apply custom profiles
            extractor.LoadProfiles("profiles.json");
            extractor.Profiles = "keep-formatting, ocr-forced-200dpi";
            // Extract text to file
            extractor.SaveTextToFile("result2.txt");
            

            // Cleanup
			extractor.Dispose();

            
            // See result files in "bin\Debug" folder
		}
	}
}