ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VB.NET – Make Searchable PDF from Image

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ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VB.NET – Make Searchable PDF from Image

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How to make searchable PDF from image in VB.NET and ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

Write code in VB.NET to make searchable PDF from image with this step-by-step tutorial

Learn how to make searchable PDF from image in VB.NET with this source code sample. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK: 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 make searchable PDF from image in VB.NET.

This rich sample source code in VB.NET for ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK includes the number of functions and options you should do calling the API to make searchable PDF from image. In your VB.NET project or application you may simply copy & paste the code and then run your app! Further enhancement of the code will make it more vigorous.

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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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 Image document
        searchablePdfMaker.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample_ocr.jpg")

        ' 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

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

        ' Cleanup
        searchablePDFMaker.Dispose()

        ' Open output file in default associated application
        Dim processStartInfo As New ProcessStartInfo("output.pdf")
        processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = True
        System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(processStartInfo)

    End Sub

End Module