ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VB.NET – Convert PDF To JSON With Images

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ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VB.NET – Convert PDF To JSON With Images

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How to convert PDF to JSON with images in VB.NET and ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

How to convert PDF to JSON with images in VB.NET

Source code documentation samples provide quick and easy way to add a required functionality into your application. What is ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK? It 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. It can help you to convert PDF to JSON with images in your VB.NET application.

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 JSON with images below and use it in your application. Follow the instructions from the scratch to work and copy the VB.NET code. Further enhancement of the code will make it more vigorous.

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Module1.vb

      Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor

Namespace ConsoleApplication1

    Class Program

        Shared Sub Main(ByVal args As String())

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

            ' Load sample PDF document
            extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample1.pdf")

            ' Uncomment this line to get rid of empty nodes in JSON
            'extractor.PreserveFormattingOnTextExtraction = False

            ' Set output image format
            extractor.ImageFormat = OutputImageFormat.PNG

            ' Save images to external files
            extractor.SaveImages = ImageHandling.OuterFile
            extractor.ImageFolder = "images" ' Folder for external images
            extractor.SaveJSONToFile("result_with_external_images.json")

            ' Embed images into JSON as Base64 encoded string
            extractor.SaveImages = ImageHandling.Embed
            extractor.SaveJSONToFile("result_with_embedded_images.json")

            ' Cleanup
		    extractor.Dispose()

        End Sub

    End Class
    
End Namespace