ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VB.NET – Make Searchable PDF Discarding Existing Content

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How to make searchable PDF discarding existing content in VB.NET and ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

This code in VB.NET shows how to make searchable PDF discarding existing content with this how to tutorial

Learn how to make searchable PDF discarding existing content in VB.NET with this source code sample. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK can make searchable PDF discarding existing content. It can be used from VB.NET. 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.

VB.NET code samples for VB.NET developers help to speed up coding of your application when using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK. In your VB.NET project or application you may simply copy & paste the code and then run your app! Use of ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK in VB.NET is also explained in the documentation included along with the product.

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Module1.vb

      Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor

Module Module1

    Sub Main()

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

        ' Load sample PDF document
        searchablePdfMaker.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample_ocr_withText.pdf")

        ' Set the location of OCR language data files
        searchablePdfMaker.OCRLanguageDataFolder = "c:\Program Files\Bytescout PDF Extractor SDK\ocrdata\"

        ' Set OCR language
        searchablePdfMaker.OCRLanguage = "eng" ' "eng" for english, "deu" for German, "fra" for French, "spa" for Spanish etc - according to files in "ocrdata" folder

        ' Set PDF document rendering resolution
        searchablePdfMaker.OCRResolution = 300

        ' Discard Existing Text in document
        searchablePdfMaker.DiscardExistingDocumentText = True

        ' Save extracted text to file
        searchablePdfMaker.MakePDFSearchable("output.pdf")

        ' Cleanup
        searchablePDFMaker.Dispose()

        ' Open output file in default associated application
        System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("output.pdf")

    End Sub

End Module