ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – Extract PDF Text From Page Area

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ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – Extract PDF Text From Page Area

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How to extract PDF text from page area in C# with ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

How to extract PDF text from page area in C#

The coding tutorials are designed to help you test the features without need to write your own code. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK is the SDK is designed to help developers with pdf tables and pdf data extraction from unstructured documents like pdf, tiff, scans, images, scanned and electronic forms. The library is powered by OCR, computer vision and AI to provide unique functionality like table detection, automatic table structure extraction, data restoration, data restructuring and reconstruction. Supports PDF, TIFF, PNG, JPG images as input and can output CSV, XML, JSON formatted data. Includes full set of utilities like pdf splitter, pdf merger, searchable pdf maker and other utilities. It can be used to extract PDF text from page area using C#.

C# code samples for C# developers help to speed up coding of your application when using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK. Follow the instructions from the scratch to work and copy the C# code. This basic programming language sample code for C# will do the whole work for you to extract PDF text from page area.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
using System.Drawing;

namespace ExtractTextFromPageArea
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            TextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor("demo", "demo");

            // Load document
            extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(@".\sample2.pdf");

            // Get page count
            int pageCount = extractor.GetPageCount();

            // Iterate through pages
            for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
            {
                // Define rectangle location to extract from
                RectangleF location = new RectangleF(0, 0, 200, 200);
                
                // Set extraction area
                extractor.SetExtractionArea(location);

                // Extract text from the extraction area
                string text = extractor.GetTextFromPage(i);
                
                Console.WriteLine("Extracted from page #" + i + ":");
                Console.WriteLine();
                Console.WriteLine(text);

                // Reset the extraction area
                extractor.ResetExtractionArea();

                Console.WriteLine();
            }

            // Cleanup
			extractor.Dispose();

            Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit...");
            Console.ReadKey();

        }
    }
}