ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK – VB.NET – Remove Text

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How to remove text in VB.NET using ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK

How to remove text in VB.NET

The sample source codes on this page shows how to remove text 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. It can be used to remove text using 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 remove text below and use it in your application. This VB.NET sample code is all you need for your app. Just copy and paste the code, add references (if needs to) and you are all set! Detailed tutorials and documentation are available along with installed ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK if you’d like to dive deeper into the topic and the details of the API.

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Module1.vb

      Imports System.Drawing
Imports Bytescout.PDFExtractor

Class Program

    Shared Sub Main(ByVal args As String())

        ' Create Bytescout.PDFExtractor.Remover instance
        Dim remover As New Remover("demo", "demo")

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

        ' Remove text "LOREM IPSUM" and save edited document as "result1.pdf".
        ' NOTE: The removed text might be larger than the search string. Currently the Remover deletes 
        ' the whole PDF text object containing the search string.
        remover.RemoveText(0, "LOREM IPSUM", True, "result1.pdf")

        ' Remove text objects contained in the specified rectangle or intersecting with it.
        ' NOTE: The removed text might be larger than the specified rectangle. Currently the Remover is unable 
        ' to split PDF text objects.
        remover.RemoveText(0, New RectangleF(74.0F, 550.0F, 489.0F, 67.0F), "result2.pdf")

        ' Remove text object contained in the specified point.
        ' NOTE: The removed text might be larger than a word in the specified point. Currently the Remover is able 
        ' to remove only the whole PDF text object containing the word.
        remover.RemoveText(0, New PointF(121.0F, 230.0F), "result3.pdf")

        ' Clean up.
        remover.Dispose()

        Console.WriteLine()
        Console.WriteLine("Press any key to continue and open result PDF files in default PDF viewer...")
        Console.ReadKey()

        Process.Start("result1.pdf")
        Process.Start("result2.pdf")
        Process.Start("result3.pdf")

    End Sub

End Class