ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VB.NET – Convert PDF To CSV

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ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VB.NET – Convert PDF To CSV

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How to convert PDF to CSV in VB.NET and ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

Write code in VB.NET to convert PDF to CSV with this step-by-step tutorial

The code below will help you to implement an VB.NET app to convert PDF to CSV. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK can convert PDF to CSV. It can be used from VB.NET. 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.

You will save a lot of time on writing and testing code as you may just take the VB.NET code from ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK for convert PDF to CSV below and use it in your application. In order to implement the functionality, you should copy and paste this code for VB.NET below into your code editor with your app, compile and run your application. Use of ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK in VB.NET is also explained in the documentation included along with the product.

Free trial version of ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK is available on our website. Documentation and source code samples are included.

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Module1.vb

      Imports System
Imports System.Collections.Generic
Imports System.Text
Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor
Imports System.Diagnostics

Namespace ConsoleApplication1

    Class Program

        Shared Sub Main(ByVal args As String())

            ' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.CSVExtractor instance
            Dim extractor As New CSVExtractor()
            extractor.RegistrationName = "demo"
            extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo"

            ' Load sample PDF document
            extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample3.pdf")

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

            ' Save extracted CSV data to file
            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 file in default associated application (for demo purposes)
            Process.Start("output.csv")

        End Sub
        
    End Class
End Namespace