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.
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using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.OleDb;
using System.Globalization;
using System.IO;
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string inputDocument = Path.GetFullPath(@".\UnicodeSample.pdf");
string csvFilePath = Path.ChangeExtension(inputDocument, ".csv");
string csvFileName = Path.GetFileName(csvFilePath);
string csvDirectory = Path.GetDirectoryName(Path.GetFullPath(csvFilePath));
// Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.CSVExtractor instance
using (CSVExtractor extractor = new CSVExtractor("demo", "demo"))
{
extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(inputDocument);
extractor.CSVSeparatorSymbol = ",";
string csvText = extractor.GetCSV();
// Save csv text in UTF-8 encoding without BOM (byte order mark):
File.WriteAllText(csvFilePath, csvText);
}
// Please Note: Target the project to x86 because Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 driver is 32-bit only.
using (OleDbConnection connection = new OleDbConnection($@"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=""{csvDirectory}"";Extended Properties=""Text;FMT=$;HDR=No;CharacterSet=65001"""))
{
using (OleDbCommand command = new OleDbCommand({code}quot;select * from [{csvFileName}]", connection))
{
using (OleDbDataAdapter adapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(command))
{
DataTable table = new DataTable();
table.Locale = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture;
adapter.Fill(table);
Console.WriteLine({code}quot;Loaded {table.Rows.Count} lines.");
}
}
}
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
}
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