ByteScout Data Extraction Suite - VB.NET - Ocr (optical character recognition) and pdf with pdf extractor sdk - ByteScout

ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – VB.NET – Ocr (optical character recognition) and pdf with pdf extractor sdk

  • Home
  • /
  • Articles
  • /
  • ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – VB.NET – Ocr (optical character recognition) and pdf with pdf extractor sdk

ocr (optical character recognition) and pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET using ByteScout Data Extraction Suite

Learn to code ocr (optical character recognition) and pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET: How-To tutorial

Writing of the code to ocr (optical character recognition) and pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VB.NET can be done by developers of any level using ByteScout Data Extraction Suite. ByteScout Data Extraction Suite helps with ocr (optical character recognition) and pdf with pdf extractor sdk in 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.

Want to speed up the application development? Then this VB.NET, code samples for VB.NET, developers help to speed up the application development and writing a code when using ByteScout Data Extraction Suite. If you want to know how it works, then this VB.NET sample code should be copied and pasted into your application’s code editor. Then just compile and run it. Want to see how it works with your data then code testing will allow the function to be tested and work properly.

Trial version can be downloaded from our website for free. It contains this and other source code samples for VB.NET.

On-demand (REST Web API) version:
 Web API (on-demand version)

On-premise offline SDK for Windows:
 60 Day Free Trial (on-premise)

Program.vb
      
Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor ' This example demonstrates the use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract text ' from scanned PDF documents and raster images. ' To make OCR work you should add the following references to your project: ' "Bytescout.PDFExtractor.dll", "Bytescout.PDFExtractor.OCRExtension.dll". 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("sample_ocr.pdf") ' 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 ' You can also apply various preprocessing filters ' to improve the recognition on low-quality scans. ' Automatically deskew skewed scans 'extractor.OCRImagePreprocessingFilters.AddDeskew() ' Remove vertical or horizontal lines (sometimes helps to avoid OCR engine's page segmentation errors) 'extractor.OCRImagePreprocessingFilters.AddVerticalLinesRemover() 'extractor.OCRImagePreprocessingFilters.AddHorizontalLinesRemover() ' Repair broken letters 'extractor.OCRImagePreprocessingFilters.AddDilate() ' Remove noise 'extractor.OCRImagePreprocessingFilters.AddMedian() ' Apply Gamma Correction 'extractor.OCRImagePreprocessingFilters.AddGammaCorrection() ' Add Contrast ' extractor.OCRImagePreprocessingFilters.AddContrast(20) ' (!) You can use new OCRAnalyzer class to find an optimal set of image preprocessing ' filters for your specific document. ' See "OCR Analyser" example. ' Save extracted text to file extractor.SaveTextToFile("output.txt") ' Cleanup extractor.Dispose() ' Open output file in default associated application System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("output.txt") End Sub End Class

ON-PREMISE OFFLINE SDK

60 Day Free Trial or Visit ByteScout Data Extraction Suite Home Page

Explore ByteScout Data Extraction Suite Documentation

Explore Samples

Sign Up for ByteScout Data Extraction Suite Online Training

ON-DEMAND REST WEB API

Get Your API Key

Explore Web API Docs

Explore Web API Samples

VIDEO

ON-PREMISE OFFLINE SDK

60 Day Free Trial or Visit ByteScout Data Extraction Suite Home Page

Explore ByteScout Data Extraction Suite Documentation

Explore Samples

Sign Up for ByteScout Data Extraction Suite Online Training

ON-DEMAND REST WEB API

Get Your API Key

Explore Web API Docs

Explore Web API Samples

Tutorials:

prev
next