ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – VB.NET – Extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk

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ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – VB.NET – Extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk

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How to extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET and ByteScout Data Extraction Suite

Learn to code in VB.NET to extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk with this step-by-step tutorial

The code displayed below will guide you to install an VB.NET app to extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk. What is ByteScout Data Extraction Suite? It 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. It can help you to extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk in your VB.NET application.

Want to save time? You will save a lot of time on writing and testing code as you may just take the VB.NET code from ByteScout Data Extraction Suite for extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk below and use it in your application. IF you want to implement the functionality, just copy and paste this code for VB.NET below into your code editor with your app, compile and run your application. Further improvement of the code will make it more robust.

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Program.vb

      Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor

Class Program
	Friend Shared Sub Main(args As String())

		' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor instance
		Dim extractor As New TextExtractor()
		extractor.RegistrationName = "demo"
		extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo"

		' Load sample PDF document
        extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(".\columns.pdf")

		' Extract text by columns (useful if PDF document is designed in column layout like a newspaper)
		extractor.ExtractColumnByColumn = true

		' Save extracted text to file
		extractor.SaveTextToFile(".\result.txt")

		' Cleanup
		extractor.Dispose()

		' Open result file in default associated application (for demo purposes)
		System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(".\result.txt")
		
	End Sub
End Class