ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VB.NET – Reduce Memory Usage

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How to reduce memory usage in VB.NET using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

How to code in VB.NET to reduce memory usage with this step-by-step tutorial

Learn how to reduce memory usage in VB.NET with this source code sample. 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 reduce memory usage in VB.NET.

You will save a lot of time on writing and testing code as you may just take the VB.NET code from ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK for reduce memory usage below and use it in your application. In your VB.NET project or application you may simply copy & paste the code and then run your app! Test VB.NET sample code examples whether they respond your needs and requirements for the project.

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Program.vb

      Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor
Imports System.IO

Class Program

	Friend Shared Sub Main(args As String())

        ' When processing huge PDF documents you may run into OutOfMemoryException.
        ' This example demonstrates a way to spare the memory by disabling page data caching.

        ' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.TextExtractor instance
        Using extractor As New TextExtractor("demo", "demo")

            Try
                ' Load sample PDF document
                extractor.LoadDocumentFromFile("sample2.pdf")

                ' Disable page data caching, so processed pages wiil be disposed automatically
                extractor.PageDataCaching = PageDataCaching.None

                ' Save extracted text to file
                extractor.SaveTextToFile("output.txt")

            Catch exception As PDFExtractorException
                Console.Write(exception.ToString())
            End Try

        End Using

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

    End Sub

End Class