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How to extract filled PDF form data in VB.NET using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

How to extract filled PDF form data in VB.NET

Learn how to extract filled PDF form data in VB.NET with this source code sample. 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 extract filled PDF form data with VB.NET.

VB.NET code samples for VB.NET developers help to speed up coding of your application when using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK. Just copy and paste the code into your VB.NET application’s code and follow the instruction. Use of ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK in VB.NET is also explained in the documentation included along with the product.

Trial version of ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK can be downloaded for free from our website. It also includes source code samples for VB.NET and other programming languages.

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Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor Imports System.Xml Module Module1 Sub Main() ' Create XMLExtractor instance Dim extractor As XMLExtractor = New XMLExtractor() extractor.RegistrationName = "demo" extractor.RegistrationKey = "demo" ' Load sample PDF document extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(".\filled_form.pdf") ' Get PDF document text as XML Dim xmlText As String = extractor.GetXML() ' Load XML Dim xmlDocument As XmlDocument = New XmlDocument() XmlDocument.LoadXml(XmlText) ' Select all "control" nodes Dim formControls As XmlNodeList = xmlDocument.SelectNodes("//control") If (formControls IsNot Nothing) Then For Each formControl As XmlNode In formControls Dim typeAttribute = formControl.Attributes("type") If (typeAttribute.Value = "editbox") Then ' Show filled textboxes If (Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(formControl.InnerText)) Then Console.WriteLine("EDITBOX " + formControl.Attributes("id").Value + ": " + formControl.InnerText) End If ElseIf (typeAttribute.Value = "checkbox") Then ' Show checked checkboxes If (formControl.Attributes("state").Value = "1") Then Console.WriteLine("CHECKBOX " + formControl.Attributes("id").Value + ": " + formControl.Attributes("state").Value) End If End If Next formControl End If ' Cleanup extractor.Dispose() Console.WriteLine() Console.WriteLine("Press any key...") Console.ReadKey() End Sub End Module

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