ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – C# – TextExtractor Progress Indication

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textextractor progress indication in C# using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

Write code in C# to make textextractor progress indication with this How-To tutorial

The sample source codes on this page will demonstrate you how to make textextractor progress indication in C#. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK was made to help with textextractor progress indication in C#. 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.

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 implement textextractor progress indication. 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 add textextractor progress indication functions using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK in C#.

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Program.cs

      using Bytescout.PDFExtractor;
using System;

namespace TextExtractorProgressChangedEvent
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            try
            {
                //Read all file content...
                using (TextExtractor extractor = new TextExtractor())
                {
                    // Load document
                    extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample.png");

                    // Extractor Progress event
                    Console.WriteLine("Text Extraction in progress: \n");
                    extractor.ProgressChanged += Extractor_ProgressChanged;

                    // Set option to repair text
                    extractor.OCRMode = OCRMode.TextFromImagesAndVectorsAndRepairedFonts;

                    // Enable Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
                    // in .Auto mode (SDK automatically checks if needs to use OCR or not)
                    extractor.OCRMode = OCRMode.Auto;

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

                    // Set OCR language
                    extractor.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
                    extractor.OCRResolution = 300;

                    //Read all text
                    var allExtractedText = extractor.GetText();
                    Console.WriteLine("\n\nExtracted Text:\n\n{0}", allExtractedText);
                }


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

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

        /// <summary>
        /// Handle progress change event
        /// </summary>
        private static void Extractor_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
        }
    }
}