ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – VB.NET – Make searchable pdf from image with pdf extractor sdk

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ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – VB.NET – Make searchable pdf from image with pdf extractor sdk

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How to make searchable pdf from image with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET with ByteScout Data Extraction Suite

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

These source code samples are assembled by their programming language and functions they apply. ByteScout Data Extraction Suite can make searchable pdf from image with pdf extractor sdk. It can be applied from VB.NET. 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.

The following code snippet for ByteScout Data Extraction Suite works best when you need to quickly make searchable pdf from image with pdf extractor sdk in your VB.NET application. 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.

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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 Image document
        searchablePdfMaker.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample_ocr.jpg")

        ' 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

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

        ' Cleanup
        searchablePDFMaker.Dispose()

        ' Open output file in default associated application
        Dim processStartInfo As New ProcessStartInfo("output.pdf")
        processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = True
        System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(processStartInfo)

    End Sub

End Module