ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – Make Unsearchable PDF

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ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – Make Unsearchable PDF

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How to make unsearchable PDF in C# using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

Tutorial on how to make unsearchable PDF in C#

Source code documentation samples provide quick and easy way to add a required functionality into your application. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK can make unsearchable PDF. It can be used from C#. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK is the Software Development Kit (SDK) that is designed to help developers with 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.

This rich sample source code in C# for ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK includes the number of functions and options you should do calling the API to make unsearchable PDF. Follow the instructions from the scratch to work and copy the C# code. Detailed tutorials and documentation are available along with installed ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK if you’d like to dive deeper into the topic and the details of the API.

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Program.cs

      using System.Diagnostics;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;

namespace MakeUnsearchablePDF
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            // Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.UnsearchablePDFMaker instance
            UnsearchablePDFMaker unsearchablePDFMaker = new UnsearchablePDFMaker();
            unsearchablePDFMaker.RegistrationName = "demo";
            unsearchablePDFMaker.RegistrationKey = "demo";

            // Load sample PDF document
            unsearchablePDFMaker.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample1.pdf");

            // Set PDF rendering resolution to 150 DPI. Higher value - better quality, but larger output file.
            unsearchablePDFMaker.RenderingResolution = 150;
            // Set embedded images format
            unsearchablePDFMaker.ImageFormat = EmbeddedImageFormat.PNG;

            // Process the document 
            unsearchablePDFMaker.MakePDFUnsearchable("result.pdf");

            // Cleanup
            unsearchablePDFMaker.Dispose();

            // Open the result PDF file in default associated application
            ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("result.pdf");
            processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
            Process.Start(processStartInfo);
        }
    }
}