ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VB.NET – Find Table in PDF And Extract As CSV

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How to find table in PDF and extract as CSV in VB.NET using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

How to code in VB.NET to find table in PDF and extract as CSV with this step-by-step tutorial

We made thousands of pre-made source code pieces for easy implementation in your own programming projects. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK 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 find table in PDF and extract as CSV in VB.NET.

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 find table in PDF and extract as CSV below and use it in your application. In your VB.NET project or application you may simply copy & paste the code and then run your app! Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample VB.NET codes.

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Program.vb

      Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor

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

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

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

        ' We should define what kind of tables we should detect.
        ' So we set min required number of columns to 3 ...
        tableDetector.DetectionMinNumberOfColumns = 3
        ' ... and we set min required number of rows to 3
        tableDetector.DetectionMinNumberOfRows = 3

        ' Set table detection mode to "bordered tables" - best for tables with closed solid borders.
        tableDetector.ColumnDetectionMode = ColumnDetectionMode.BorderedTables

		' Load sample PDF document
        csvExtractor.LoadDocumentFromFile(".\sample3.pdf")
        tableDetector.LoadDocumentFromFile(".\sample3.pdf")

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

        ' Iterate through pages
		For i As Integer = 0 To pageCount - 1
            Dim t As Integer = 1
            ' Find first table and continue if found
            If (tableDetector.FindTable(i)) Then
                Do
                    ' Set extraction area for CSV extractor to rectangle received from the table detector
                    csvExtractor.SetExtractionArea(tableDetector.FoundTableLocation)
                    ' Export the table to CSV file
                    csvExtractor.SavePageCSVToFile(i, "page-" + i.ToString() + "-table-" + t.ToString() + ".csv")
                    t = t + 1
                Loop While tableDetector.FindNextTable()
            End If
        Next

        ' Cleanup
		csvExtractor.Dispose()
		tableDetector.Dispose()

        ' Open first output file in default associated application (for demo purposes)
        System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("page-0-table-1.csv")

	End Sub
End Class