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parsing and reading data from airline tickets in VB.NET with ByteScout Document Parser SDK

Learn to code parsing and reading data from airline tickets in VB.NET: How-To tutorial

The samples of source code documentation give a quick and simple method to apply a required functionality into your application. ByteScout Document Parser SDK was made to help with parsing and reading data from airline tickets in VB.NET. ByteScout Document Parser SDK is the robost offline data extraction platform for template based data extraction and processing. Supports high load with millions of documents as input. Templates can be quickly created and updated with no special technical knowledge required.

If you want to quickly learn then these fast application programming interfaces of ByteScout Document Parser SDK for VB.NET plus the guideline and the VB.NET code below will help you quickly learn parsing and reading data from airline tickets. 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. Further improvement of the code will make it more robust.

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GeneralExample.sln

      
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GeneralExample.vbproj

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    <ProjectGuid>{A5FA1293-C15B-4249-A771-ED4301658454}</ProjectGuid>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <StartupObject>GeneralExample.Module1</StartupObject>
    <RootNamespace>GeneralExample</RootNamespace>
    <AssemblyName>GeneralExample</AssemblyName>
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    <MyType>Console</MyType>
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  <PropertyGroup>
    <OptionCompare>Binary</OptionCompare>
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  <PropertyGroup>
    <OptionStrict>Off</OptionStrict>
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  <PropertyGroup>
    <OptionInfer>On</OptionInfer>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <Reference Include="ByteScout.DocumentParser, Version=1.0.0.100, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=f7dd1bd9d40a50eb, processorArchitecture=MSIL">
      <SpecificVersion>False</SpecificVersion>
      <HintPath>c:\Program Files\ByteScout Document Parser SDK\net40\ByteScout.DocumentParser.dll</HintPath>
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    <Reference Include="System" />
    <Reference Include="System.Data" />
    <Reference Include="System.Xml" />
    <Reference Include="System.Core" />
    <Reference Include="System.Xml.Linq" />
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  <ItemGroup>
    <None Include="..\..\SampleTicket.pdf">
      <Link>SampleTicket.pdf</Link>
      <CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>
    </None>
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      <Link>Templates\SampleTicket.yml</Link>
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Module1.vb

      Imports ByteScout.DocumentParser

' This example demonstrates document data parsing to JSON, YAML and XML formats.

Module Module1

    Sub Main()

        Dim templatesDocument As String = ".\Templates\SampleTicket.yml"
        Dim inputDocument As String = ".\SampleTicket.pdf"

        ' Create DocumentParser instance
        Using documentParser As New DocumentParser("demo", "demo")

            ' Loading template
            documentParser.AddTemplate(templatesDocument)

            ' Parse document data in JSON format
            Dim jsonString As String = documentParser.ParseDocument(inputDocument, OutputFormat.JSON)
            ' Display parsed data in console
            Console.WriteLine("Parsing results in JSON format:")
            Console.WriteLine()
            Console.WriteLine(jsonString)

            Console.WriteLine(Environment.NewLine + Environment.NewLine + "==================" + Environment.NewLine + Environment.NewLine)

            ' Parse document data in YAML format
            Dim yamlString As String = documentParser.ParseDocument(inputDocument, OutputFormat.YAML)
            ' Display parsed data in console
            Console.WriteLine("Parsing results in YAML format:")
            Console.WriteLine()
            Console.WriteLine(yamlString)

            Console.WriteLine(Environment.NewLine + Environment.NewLine + "==================" + Environment.NewLine + Environment.NewLine)

            ' Parse document data in YAML format
            Dim xmlString As String = documentParser.ParseDocument(inputDocument, OutputFormat.XML)
            ' Display parsed data in console
            Console.WriteLine("Parsing results in XML format:")
            Console.WriteLine()
            Console.WriteLine(xmlString)

        End Using

        Console.WriteLine()
        Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue...")
        Console.ReadLine()

    End Sub

End Module