ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VB.NET – Reading and Writing to Azure Blob

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reading and writing to azure blob in VB.NET using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

Learn to code in VB.NET to make reading and writing to azure blob with this simple How-To tutorial

Writing of the code to reading and writing to azure blob in VB.NET can be done by developers of any level using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK helps with reading and writing to azure blob in VB.NET. ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK is the SDK that helps developers to extract data from unstructured documents, pdf, images, scanned and electronic forms. Includes AI functions like automatic table detection, automatic table extraction and restructuring, text recognition and text restoration from pdf and scanned documents. Includes PDF to CSV, PDF to XML, PDF to JSON, PDF to searchable PDF functions as well as methods for low level data extraction.

The below SDK samples describe how to quickly make your application do reading and writing to azure blob in VB.NET with the help of ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK. If you want to implement this functionality, you should copy and paste code below into your app using code editor. Then compile and run your application. Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample VB.NET codes to implement reading and writing to azure blob using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK.

ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK is available as a free trial. You may get it from our website along with all other source code samples for VB.NET applications.

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Module1.vb

      Imports System
Imports System.Collections.Generic
Imports System.Text
Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor
Imports System.Diagnostics
Imports System.IO

Namespace ConsoleApplication1

    Class Program

        Shared Sub Main(ByVal args As String())

            'Please note: Streams can be read/write To azure blobs, so In this example,
            'we 're demonstrating how to read pdf from stream, convert to csv, 
            'And write to csv stream

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

            ' Get input stream
            Dim inputStream = GetMemoryStream("sample3.pdf")

            ' Load sample PDF document from Stream
            extractor.LoadDocumentFromStream(inputStream)

            ' You can change CSV separator symbol (if needed) from "," symbol to another if needed for non-US locales
            'extractor.CSVSeparatorSymbol = "," 

            ' Save extracted CSV data to output stream
            Dim outputStream As New MemoryStream()
            extractor.SaveCSVToStream(outputStream)

            ' Save output stream to file, so  we can take a look
            WriteStreamToFile(outputStream, "output.csv")

            ' Cleanup
            extractor.Dispose()

            Console.WriteLine()
            Console.WriteLine("Data has been extracted to 'output.csv' file.")
            Console.WriteLine()
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue and open CSV in default CSV viewer (or Excel)...")
            Console.ReadKey()

            ' Open result file in default associated application (for demo purposes)
            Process.Start("output.csv")

        End Sub

        ''' <summary>
        ''' Get Memory stream from file
        ''' </summary>
        Shared Function GetMemoryStream(ByVal fileName As String) As Stream
            Return New FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Open)
        End Function

        ''' <summary>
        ''' Write stream to file
        ''' </summary>
        Shared Sub WriteStreamToFile(ByVal stream As Stream, ByVal fileName As String)

            Using fileStream = File.Create(fileName)
                stream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin)
                stream.CopyTo(fileStream)
            End Using

        End Sub

    End Class
End Namespace