ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – VB.NET – Make searchable pdf discarding existing content with pdf extractor sdk

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How to make searchable pdf discarding existing content with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET and ByteScout Data Extraction Suite

If you want to learn more then this tutorial will show how to make searchable pdf discarding existing content with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET

Every ByteScout tool includes simple example VB.NET source codes that you can get here or in the folder with installed ByteScout product. 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. It can make searchable pdf discarding existing content with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET.

The SDK samples given below describe how to quickly make your application do make searchable pdf discarding existing content with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET with the help of ByteScout Data Extraction Suite. Follow the instructions from scratch to work and copy the VB.NET code. Applying VB.NET 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.

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

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Module1.vb

      Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor

Module Module1

    Sub Main()

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

        ' Load sample PDF document
        searchablePdfMaker.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample_ocr_withText.pdf")

        ' Set the location of OCR 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

        ' Discard Existing Text in document
        searchablePdfMaker.DiscardExistingDocumentText = True

        ' Save extracted text to file
        searchablePdfMaker.MakePDFSearchable("output.pdf")

        ' Cleanup
        searchablePDFMaker.Dispose()

        ' Open output file in default associated application
        System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("output.pdf")

    End Sub

End Module