ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VB.NET – Extract Text From Page Area in PDF

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How to extract text from page area in PDF in VB.NET using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

How to code in VB.NET to extract text from page area in PDF with this step-by-step tutorial

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 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 help you to extract text from page area in PDF in your VB.NET application.

The SDK samples like this one below explain how to quickly make your application do extract text from page area in PDF in VB.NET with the help of ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK. 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 extract text from page area in PDF.

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Program.vb

      Imports System.Drawing
Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor


Class Program
    Friend Shared Sub Main(args As String())

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

        ' Load sample PDF document
        extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample2.pdf")

        ' Get page count
        Dim pageCount As Integer = extractor.GetPageCount()

        ' Iterate through pages
        For i As Integer = 0 To pageCount - 1

            ' Define rectangle location to extract from
            Dim location As RectangleF = New RectangleF(0, 0, 200, 200)

            ' Set extraction area
            extractor.SetExtractionArea(location)

            ' Extract text from the extraction area
            Dim text As String = extractor.GetTextFromPage(i)

            Console.WriteLine("Extracted from page #" + i.ToString() + ":")
            Console.WriteLine()
            Console.WriteLine(text)

            ' Reset the extraction area
            extractor.ResetExtractionArea()

            Console.WriteLine()

        Next

        ' Cleanup
		extractor.Dispose()


        Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit...")
        Console.ReadKey()

    End Sub
End Class