ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – VBScript – Extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk

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ByteScout Data Extraction Suite – VBScript – 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 VBScript using ByteScout Data Extraction Suite

Continuous learning is a crucial part of computer science and this tutorial shows how to extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VBScript

The sample source codes on this page shows how to extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk in VBScript. ByteScout Data Extraction Suite can extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk. It can be applied from VBScript. 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.

This prolific sample source code in VBScript for ByteScout Data Extraction Suite contains various functions and other necessary options you should do calling the API to extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk. Follow the instructions from scratch to work and copy the VBScript code. This basic programming language sample code for VBScript will do the whole work for you to extract text by columns from pdf with pdf extractor sdk.

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ExtractTextByColumns.vbs

      ' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor object
Set extractor = CreateObject("Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor")
extractor.RegistrationName = "demo"
extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo"

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

' Set the column layout mode
extractor.ExtractColumnByColumn = true

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

' Open output file in default associated application
Set shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
shell.Run "result.txt", 1, false
Set shell = Nothing

Set extractor = Nothing