ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VB.NET – PDF To XML With Images

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PDF to XML with images in VB.NET using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

PDF to XML with images in VB.NET

Today you are going to learn how to PDF to XML with images in VB.NET. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK was made to help with PDF to XML with images in 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.

The SDK samples like this one below explain how to quickly make your application do PDF to XML with images in VB.NET with the help of ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK. In order to implement this functionality, you should copy and paste code below into your app using code editor. Then compile and run your application. Code testing will allow the function to be tested and work properly with your data.

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Module1.vb

      Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor

Namespace PDF2XML

    Class Program

        Shared Sub Main(ByVal args As String())

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

            ' Load sample PDF document
            extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample1.pdf")

            ' Uncomment this line to get rid of empty nodes in XML
            'extractor.PreserveFormattingOnTextExtraction = False

            ' Set output image format
            extractor.ImageFormat = OutputImageFormat.PNG

            ' Save images to external files
            extractor.SaveImages = ImageHandling.OuterFile
            extractor.ImageFolder = "images" ' Folder for external images
            extractor.SaveXMLToFile("result_with_external_images.xml")

            ' Embed images into XML as Base64 encoded string
            extractor.SaveImages = ImageHandling.Embed
            extractor.SaveXMLToFile("result_with_embedded_images.xml")

            ' Cleanup
		    extractor.Dispose()

        End Sub

    End Class

End Namespace