ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – C# – TextExtractor Progress Indication with PDF Extractor SDK

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textextractor progress indication with PDF extractor SDK in C# using ByteScout Data Extraction Suite

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Step-by-step instructions on how to do textextractor progress indication with PDF extractor SDK in C#

The example source codes on this page will display you how to make textextractor progress indication with PDF extractor SDK in C#. Textextractor progress indication with PDF extractor SDK in C# can be applied with ByteScout Data Extraction Suite. 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.

Save time on writing and testing code by using the code below and use it in your application. Just copy and paste this C# sample code to your C# application’s code editor, add a reference to ByteScout Data Extraction Suite (if you haven’t added yet) and you are ready to go! Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample C# codes to add textextractor progress indication with PDF extractor SDK functions using ByteScout Data Extraction Suite in C#.

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Program.cs

      using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
using System;

namespace TextExtractorProgressChangedEvent
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            try
            {
                //Read all file content...
                using (TextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor())
                {
                    // Load document
                    extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample.png");

                    // Extractor Progress event
                    Console.WriteLine("Text Extraction in progress: \n");
                    extractor.ProgressChanged += Extractor_ProgressChanged;

                    // Set option to repair text
                    extractor.OCRMode = OCRMode.TextFromImagesAndVectorsAndRepairedFonts;

                    // Enable Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
                    // in .Auto mode (SDK automatically checks if needs to use OCR or not)
                    extractor.OCRMode = OCRMode.Auto;

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

                    // Set OCR language
                    extractor.OCRLanguage = "eng"; // "eng" for english, "deu" for German, "fra" for French, "spa" for Spanish etc - according to files in "ocrdata" folder
                    // Find more language files at https://github.com/bytescout/ocrdata

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

                    //Read all text
                    var allExtractedText = extractor.GetText();
                    Console.WriteLine("\n\nExtracted Text:\n\n{0}", allExtractedText);
                }


            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
            }

			Console.WriteLine("Press enter key to exit...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Handle progress change event
        /// </summary>
        private static void Extractor_ProgressChanged(object sender, OngoingOperation ongoingOperation, double progress, ref bool cancel)
        {
            drawTextProgressBar(Convert.ToInt32(progress), 100);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Display progress bar
        /// </summary>
        private static void drawTextProgressBar(int progress, int total)
        {
            //draw empty progress bar
            Console.CursorLeft = 0;
            Console.Write("["); //start
            Console.CursorLeft = 32;
            Console.Write("]"); //end
            Console.CursorLeft = 1;
            float onechunk = 30.0f / total;

            //draw filled part
            int position = 1;
            for (int i = 0; i < onechunk * progress; i++)
            {
                Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Green;
                Console.CursorLeft = position++;
                Console.Write(" ");
            }

            //draw unfilled part
            for (int i = position; i <= 31; i++)
            {
                Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Gray;
                Console.CursorLeft = position++;
                Console.Write(" ");
            }

            //draw totals
            Console.CursorLeft = 35;
            Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Black;
            Console.Write(progress.ToString() + " of " + total.ToString() + "    "); //blanks at the end remove any excess
        }
    }
}