ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – ASP Classic – Extract Text from PDF

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ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – ASP Classic – Extract Text from PDF

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How to extract text from PDF in ASP Classic and ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

How to code in ASP Classic to extract text from PDF with this step-by-step tutorial

Source code documentation samples provide quick and easy way to add a required functionality into your application. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK: the SDK that helps developers to extract data from unstructured documents, pdf, images, scanned and electronic forms. Includes AI functions like automatic table detection, automatic table extraction and restructuring, text recognition and text restoration from pdf and scanned documents. Includes PDF to CSV, PDF to XML, PDF to JSON, PDF to searchable PDF functions as well as methods for low level data extraction. It can extract text from PDF in ASP Classic.

Fast application programming interfaces of ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK for ASP Classic plus the instruction and the code below will help you quickly learn how to extract text from PDF. Just copy and paste the code into your ASP Classic application’s code and follow the instruction. Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample ASP Classic codes.

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ExtractText.asp

      <%

' In case of "Server.CreateObject Failed", "Server object error "ASP 0177 : 8000ffff" or similar errors:
' Please try the following:
' - Open IIS 
' - Find application pools (DefaultAppPool is used by default)
' - Open its properties and check .NET CLR version selected:
' - if you have  .NET 1.1 then change to .NET CLR 2.00
' - if you have .NET CLR 2.00 then try to change to .NET CLR 4.0


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

' Load sample PDF document
extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("..\..\sample2.pdf")

' Save extracted text to file
outputText = extractor.GetText()

response.ContentType = "application/text"

' add content type header 
response.AddHeader "Content-Type", "application/text"

' set the content disposition
response.AddHeader "Content-Disposition", "inline;filename=HelloWorld.text"

' write the output text
response.Write OutputText
response.End


Set extractor = Nothing

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