ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VB.NET – Extract Attachments from PDF

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ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VB.NET – Extract Attachments from PDF

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How to extract attachments from PDF in VB.NET and ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

The tutorial below will demonstrate how to extract attachments from PDF in VB.NET

Extract attachments from PDF is easy to implement in VB.NET if you use these source codes below. 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. It can be used to extract attachments from PDF using VB.NET.

This rich sample source code in VB.NET for ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK includes the number of functions and options you should do calling the API to extract attachments from PDF. Just copy and paste the code into your VB.NET application’s code and follow the instruction. Further enhancement of the code will make it more vigorous.

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Module1.vb

      Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor

Module Module1

    Sub Main()

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

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

        For i As Integer = 0 To extractor.Count - 1
            Console.WriteLine("Saving attachment: " + extractor.GetFileName(i))
            ' Save attachment to file
            extractor.Save(i, extractor.GetFileName(i))
            Console.WriteLine("File size: " + extractor.GetSize(i).ToString())
        Next

        ' Cleanup
		extractor.Dispose()

    End Sub

End Module