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

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

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); } } } [/csharp]


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