ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – Remove Empty Pages

ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – Remove Empty Pages

Program.cs

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;

namespace RemoveEmptyPagesExample
{
    /// <summary>
    /// The example demonstrates detection of empty pages, splitting the document to separate
    /// pages excluding empty ones, then combine parts back to a single document.
    /// </summary>
    class Program
    {
        static string InputFile = @".\sample.pdf";
        static string OutputFile = @".\result.pdf";
        static string TempFolder = @".\temp";

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Create and setup Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor instance
            TextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor("demo", "demo");
            
            // Load PDF document
            extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(InputFile);

            // List to keep non-empty page numbers
            List<string> nonEmptyPages = new List<string>();

            // Iterate through pages
            for (int pageIndex = 0; pageIndex < extractor.GetPageCount(); pageIndex++)
            {
                // Extract page text
                string pageText = extractor.GetTextFromPage(pageIndex);
                // If extracted text is not empty keep the page number
                if (pageText.Length > 0)
                    nonEmptyPages.Add((pageIndex + 1).ToString());
            }

            // Cleanup
            extractor.Dispose();


            // Form comma-separated list of page numbers to split("1,3,5")
            string ranges = string.Join(",", nonEmptyPages);

            // Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.DocumentSplitter instance
            DocumentSplitter splitter = new DocumentSplitter("demo", "demo");
            splitter.OptimizeSplittedDocuments = true;

            // Split document by non-empty in temp folder
            string[] parts = splitter.Split(InputFile, ranges, TempFolder);

            // Cleanup
            splitter.Dispose();


            // Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.DocumentMerger instance
            DocumentMerger merger = new DocumentMerger("demo", "demo");

            // Merge parts
            merger.Merge(parts, OutputFile);

            // Cleanup
            merger.Dispose();

            // Delete temp folder
            Directory.Delete(TempFolder, true);


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

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