ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VB.NET – Merge Protected PDF Documents

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How to merge protected PDF documents in VB.NET with ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

Tutorial on how to merge protected PDF documents in VB.NET

These source code samples are listed and grouped by their programming language and functions they use. 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 be used to merge protected PDF documents using VB.NET.

VB.NET code samples for VB.NET developers help to speed up coding of your application when using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK. Follow the instructions from the scratch to work and copy the VB.NET code. Implementing VB.NET application typically includes multiple stages of the software development so even if the functionality works please test it with your data and the production environment.

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Program.vb

      Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor
Imports System.Diagnostics

Class Program

	Friend Shared Sub Main(args As String())

        Dim inputFiles As String() = New String() {"encrypted1 (password is 'password').pdf", "encrypted2 (password is 'password').pdf"}

        Using merger As New DocumentMerger("demo", "demo")

            ' Handle `PasswordRequired` event
            AddHandler merger.PasswordRequired, New PasswordEventHandler(AddressOf merger_PasswordRequired)

            ' Ignore document permissions
            merger.CheckPermissions = False

            merger.Merge(inputFiles, "result.pdf")
        End Using

        Process.Start("result.pdf")

    End Sub

    Private Shared Sub merger_PasswordRequired(sender As Object, document As String, ByRef password As String)
        ' Set document password here
        password = "password"
    End Sub
End Class