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

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

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

The tutorial below will demonstrate how to convert PDF to XML in VB.NET

With this source code sample you may quickly learn how to convert PDF to XML in VB.NET. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK: 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. It can convert PDF to XML in VB.NET.

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 XML below and use it in your application. 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! Code testing will allow the function to be tested and work properly with your data.

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Module1.vb

      Imports System
Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor

Namespace PDF2XML

    Class Program

        Shared Sub Main(ByVal args As String())

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

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

            extractor.SaveXMLToFile("output.XML")

            ' Cleanup
		    extractor.Dispose()

            Console.WriteLine()
            Console.WriteLine("Data has been extracted to 'output.XML' file.")
            Console.WriteLine()
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key...")
            Console.ReadKey()

        End Sub

    End Class

End Namespace