ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – PDF To CSV (Merge multiline text to table cell)

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PDF to CSV (merge multiline text to table cell) in C# using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

How to use ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK for PDF to CSV (merge multiline text to table cell) in C#

Today you are going to learn how to PDF to CSV (merge multiline text to table cell) in C#. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK was made to help with PDF to CSV (merge multiline text to table cell) in 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.

C# code snippet like this for ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK works best when you need to quickly implement PDF to CSV (merge multiline text to table cell) in your C# application. Follow the instruction from the scratch to work and copy and paste code for C# into your editor. Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample C# codes to implement PDF to CSV (merge multiline text to table cell) using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK.

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Program.cs

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

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.CSVExtractor instance
            CSVExtractor extractor = new CSVExtractor();
            extractor.RegistrationName = "demo";
            extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo";

            // Load sample PDF document
            extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample3_multiline.pdf");

            // you can change CSV separator symbol (if needed) from "," symbol to another if needed for non-US locales
            //extractor.CSVSeparatorSymbol = ",";

            // For multiline cell join extracted cell text into single line
            extractor.LineGroupingMode = LineGroupingMode.GroupByRows;
            extractor.Unwrap = true;

            // Save extracted CSV data
            extractor.SaveCSVToFile("output.csv");

            // Cleanup
            extractor.Dispose();

            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.WriteLine("Data has been extracted to 'output.csv' file.");
            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue and open CSV in default CSV viewer (or Excel)...");
            Console.ReadKey();

            // Open result document in default associated application (for demo purpose)
            ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("output.csv");
            processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
            Process.Start(processStartInfo);
        }
    }
}