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

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

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

This code in VB.NET shows how to extract text from PDF with this how to tutorial

The documentation is designed to help you to implement the features on your side. What is ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK? It is the SDK is designed to help developers with pdf tables and pdf 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 other utilities. It can help you to extract text from PDF in your VB.NET application.

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 extract text from PDF below and use it in your application. Just copy and paste the code into your VB.NET application’s code and follow the instruction. Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample codes in VB.NET.

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Program.vb

      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")

		' Save extracted text to file
		extractor.SaveTextToFile(".\result.txt")

		' Cleanup
		extractor.Dispose()

		' Open result file in default associated application (for demo purposes)
		System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(".\result.txt")
	End Sub
End Class