ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – Find PDF Table And Extract As XML

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ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – Find PDF Table And Extract As XML

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How to find PDF table and extract as XML in C# using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

How to code in C# to find PDF table and extract as XML with this step-by-step tutorial

Sample source code below will show you how to cope with a difficult task like find PDF table and extract as XML in C#. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK can find PDF table and extract as XML. It can be used from C#. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK is 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.

C# code samples for C# developers help to speed up coding of your application when using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK. In order to implement the functionality, you should copy and paste this code for C# below into your code editor with your app, compile and run your application. Use of ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK in C# is also explained in the documentation included along with the product.

Trial version of ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK is available for free. Source code samples are included to help you with your C# app.

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Program.cs

      using System.Diagnostics;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;

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

            // Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TableDetector instance
            TableDetector tableDetector = new TableDetector();
            tableDetector.RegistrationKey = "demo";
            tableDetector.RegistrationName = "demo";

            // We should define what kind of tables we should detect.
            // So we set min required number of columns to 3 ...
            tableDetector.DetectionMinNumberOfColumns = 3;
            // ... and we set min required number of rows to 3
            tableDetector.DetectionMinNumberOfRows = 3;

            // Load sample PDF document
            xmlExtractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(@".\sample3.pdf");
            tableDetector.LoadDocumentFromFile(@".\sample3.pdf");

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

            for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++)
            {
                int t = 1;
                // Find first table and continue if found
                if (tableDetector.FindTable(i))
                {
                    do
                    {
                        // Set extraction area for XML extractor to rectangle received from the table detector
                        xmlExtractor.SetExtractionArea(tableDetector.FoundTableLocation);
                        // Export the table to XML file
                        xmlExtractor.SavePageXMLToFile(i, "page-" + i + "-table-" + t + ".xml");
                        t++;
                    } 
                    while (tableDetector.FindNextTable()); // search next table
                }
            }

            // Cleanup
            xmlExtractor.Dispose();
            tableDetector.Dispose();

            // Open first output file in default associated application (for demo purposes)
            ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("page-0-table-1.xml");
            processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
            Process.Start(processStartInfo);
        }
    }
}