ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – Extract Text From PDF By Pages

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ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – Extract Text From PDF By Pages

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How to extract text from PDF by pages in C# with ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

The tutorial below will demonstrate how to extract text from PDF by pages in C#

With this source code sample you may quickly learn how to extract text from PDF by pages in C#. 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 text from PDF by pages 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. Use of ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK in C# is also explained in the documentation included along with the product.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace ExtractTextByPages
{
	class Program
	{
		static void Main(string[] args)
		{
			// Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor instance
			TextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor();
			extractor.RegistrationName = "demo";
			extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo";

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

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

			for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
			{
				string fileName = "page" + i + ".txt";
				
				// Save extracted page text to file
				extractor.SavePageTextToFile(i, fileName);
			}

			// Cleanup
			extractor.Dispose();

			// Open first output file in default associated application
			ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(@".\page1.txt");
            processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
            Process.Start(processStartInfo);
		}
	}
}