ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VB.NET – Convert XFA Form To XML in PDF

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

How to convert XFA form to XML in PDF in VB.NET

The code below will help you to implement an VB.NET app to convert XFA form to XML in PDF. Want to convert XFA form to XML in PDF in your VB.NET app? ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK is designed for it. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK is the SDK that helps developers to extract data from unstructured documents, pdf, images, scanned and electronic forms. Includes AI functions like automatic table detection, automatic table extraction and restructuring, text recognition and text restoration from pdf and scanned documents. Includes PDF to CSV, PDF to XML, PDF to JSON, PDF to searchable PDF functions as well as methods for low level data extraction.

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 XFA form to XML in PDF 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! This basic programming language sample code for VB.NET will do the whole work for you to convert XFA form to XML in PDF.

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Program.vb

      Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor

Class Program

    Friend Shared Sub Main(args As String())

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

        ' Load PDF document
        ' (!) We do not provide the sample document, please load your own.
        extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("samplexfa.pdf")

        ' Enumerate XFA form content part types
        For Each contentType As XFAFormContentType In [Enum].GetValues(GetType(XFAFormContentType))

            'Get count of content parts of specified type
            Dim partCount As Integer = extractor.GetCount(contentType)

            ' Save parts as XML files
            For i As Integer = 0 To partCount - 1
                Dim fileName As String = contentType.ToString() + i.ToString() + ".xml"
                extractor.SaveToFile(contentType, i, fileName)
                Console.WriteLine("Saved form part " + fileName)
            Next

        Next

        ' Cleanup
        extractor.Dispose()

        Console.WriteLine()
        Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue...")
        Console.ReadLine()

    End Sub

End Class