ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VB.NET – Compare PDF Documents

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compare PDF documents in VB.NET with ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

Make compare PDF documents in VB.NET

Tutorial on how to do compare PDF documents in VB.NET

The coding tutorials are designed to help you test the features without need to write your own code. Compare PDF documents in VB.NET can be implemented with ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK. 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.

VB.NET, code samples for VB.NET, developers help to speed up the application development and writing a code when using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK. In order to implement this functionality, you should copy and paste code below into your app using code editor. Then compile and run your application. Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample VB.NET codes to add compare PDF documents functions using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK in VB.NET.

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Program.vb

      Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor

Class Program
        Friend Shared Sub Main(args As String())

        ' Load first document
        Dim document1 As TextExtractor = New TextExtractor()
        document1.RegistrationName = "demo"
        document1.RegistrationKey = "demo"
        document1.LoadDocumentFromFile(".\comparison1.pdf")

        ' Load second  document
        Dim document2 As TextExtractor = New TextExtractor()
        document2.RegistrationName = "demo"
        document2.RegistrationKey = "demo"
        document2.LoadDocumentFromFile(".\comparison2.pdf")

        ' Compare documents
        Dim comparer As TextComparer = New TextComparer()
        comparer.RegistrationName = "demo"
        comparer.RegistrationKey = "demo"
        comparer.Compare(document1, document2)

        ' Generate report
        comparer.GenerateHtmlReport(".\report.html")

        ' Cleanup
        document1.Dispose()
        document2.Dispose()

        ' Open the report in default browser
        System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(".\report.html")

        End Sub
End Class