ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – SearchablePDFMaker Progress Indication

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searchablepdfmaker progress indication in C# with ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

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The coding tutorials are designed to help you test the features without need to write your own code. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK helps with searchablepdfmaker progress indication in C#. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK is the SDK is designed to help developers with pdf tables and pdf 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 and other utilities.

The SDK samples like this one below explain how to quickly make your application do searchablepdfmaker progress indication in C# with the help of ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK. This C# sample code should be copied and pasted into your application’s code editor. Then just compile and run it to see how it works. Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample C# codes to add searchablepdfmaker progress indication functions using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK in C#.

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Program.cs

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

namespace SearchablePDFMakerProgressChangedEvent
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            try
            {
                using (var searchablePDFMaker = new SearchablePDFMaker("demo", "demo"))
                {
                    // Load sample PDF document
                    searchablePDFMaker.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample_ocr.pdf");

                    // Extractor Progress event
                    Console.WriteLine("Searchable PDF making in progress: \n");
                    searchablePDFMaker.ProgressChanged += SearchablePDF_ProgressChanged;

                    // Set the location of OCR language data files
                    searchablePDFMaker.OCRLanguageDataFolder = @"c:\Program Files\Bytescout PDF Extractor SDK\ocrdata\";

                    // Set OCR language
                    searchablePDFMaker.OCRLanguage = "eng"; // "eng" for english, "deu" for German, "fra" for French, "spa" for Spanish etc - according to files in "ocrdata" folder
                    // Find more language files at https://github.com/bytescout/ocrdata

                    // Set PDF document rendering resolution
                    searchablePDFMaker.OCRResolution = 300;

                    // Save extracted text to file
                    searchablePDFMaker.MakePDFSearchable("output.pdf");

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

            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
            }

            Console.WriteLine("\n\n Press enter key to exit...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Handle progress change event
        /// </summary>
        private static void SearchablePDF_ProgressChanged(object sender, OngoingOperation ongoingOperation, double progress, ref bool cancel)
        {
            drawTextProgressBar(Convert.ToInt32(progress), 100);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Display progress bar
        /// </summary>
        private static void drawTextProgressBar(int progress, int total)
        {
            //draw empty progress bar
            Console.CursorLeft = 0;
            Console.Write("["); //start
            Console.CursorLeft = 32;
            Console.Write("]"); //end
            Console.CursorLeft = 1;
            float onechunk = 30.0f / total;

            //draw filled part
            int position = 1;
            for (int i = 0; i < onechunk * progress; i++)
            {
                Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Green;
                Console.CursorLeft = position++;
                Console.Write(" ");
            }

            //draw unfilled part
            for (int i = position; i <= 31; i++)
            {
                Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Gray;
                Console.CursorLeft = position++;
                Console.Write(" ");
            }

            //draw totals
            Console.CursorLeft = 35;
            Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Black;
            Console.Write(progress.ToString() + " of " + total.ToString() + "    "); //blanks at the end remove any excess
        }
    }
}