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

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

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

This code in VB.NET shows how to convert PDF to CSV by pages with this how to tutorial

These source code samples are listed and grouped by their programming language and functions they use. 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 and you can use it to convert PDF to CSV by pages with VB.NET.

The SDK samples like this one below explain how to quickly make your application do convert PDF to CSV by pages in VB.NET with the help of ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK. This VB.NET sample code is all you need for your app. Just copy and paste the code, add references (if needs to) and you are all set! You can use these VB.NET sample examples in one or many applications.

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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")

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

            ' Get page count
            Dim pageCount As Integer = extractor.GetPageCount()

            For i As Integer = 0 To pageCount - 1
                Dim fileName As String = "page" & i & ".csv"

                ' Save extracted page text to file
                extractor.SavePageCSVToFile(i, fileName)
            Next

            ' Cleanup
		    extractor.Dispose()

            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("page0.csv")

        End Sub

    End Class

End Namespace